Gov. Andrew Cuomo is preparing to deliver his 2018 State of the State address on Wednesday Jan. 3 in Albany.
Cuomo will deliver his remarks at 1 p.m.
His office has been releasing details on the various proposals that the New York governor will include in his speech. The 16th proposal, which the office released on Friday afternoon, focuses on “furthering the fight against exploding student loan debt.
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Cuomo also wants to implement a $65 million, four-point initiative to “aggressively combat harmful” algal blooms in upstate New York that “threaten the recreational use of lakes that are important to upstate tourism,” as well as sources of drinking water.
The governor announced that proposal during a Dec. 21 visit to the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Cuomo will also call on the state pension fund to stop all new investments in entities with “significant” fossil fuel-related activities. He wants to work with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to develop a de-carbonization plan to invest in “opportunities to combat climate change and support the clean-tech economy while assessing financial risks and protecting the fund.”
Cuomo also said he wants to make the state’s county shared-services panel “permanent” to “continue to reduce the local property tax burden.”
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