The Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act would be the first in the U.S. to regulate local companies’ supply chains and require they’re free of products sourced through deforestation. But Gov. Hochul is touting a revised version that supporters say would render it ineffective.
Now, with additional city agencies providing more emergency lodging than ever before in a system that officials say is at a breaking point, monitoring the total number of people in shelter has only become more important and more complicated.
"Sustainable food justice legislation must center food rescue efforts and make it a standard that all food-producing and handling businesses must meet."
Speaking from the City Hall rotunda, Mayor Eric Adams celebrated that 54 people on a city-managed short list are now off of the streets a share of whom experienced involuntary hospitalization one year after he announced the plan targeting street homeless New Yorkers with severe mental illness.