"These companies are gonna need this bill to help them with dollars, and I’ll help to push to allocate those dollars.”

The city launched the program as part of the Ithaca Green New Deal initiative, which aims to completely eliminate the city's net carbon emissions by 2030.

"When you think of the semiconductor industry, you don't automatically think of Corning."

The laws set standard wages for renewable energy jobs, set higher energy efficiency standards and incentivize thermal energy infrastructure and research.

"In order to really encourage STEM education, we need to focus and start early."

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The study shows an estimated 7,000 deaths a year due to occupational disease.

The bill still needs a vote in the Senate and approval from Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“The Greenidge facility itself, when it’s fully operational, will be emitting over a million tons of CO2 equivalents in the air every year.”

The grant would help scale up parts of the manufacturing economy locally, including incentives for other companies in the battery manufacturing supply chain to relocate to the Southern Tier.