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May 11, 2021
Legislation under consideration in New York to stop Bitcoin mining over environmental concerns wonât stop an increasingly-green industry.
A bill currently in committee at the New York State Senate is calling for a ban on bitcoin mining for three years while an environmental assessment is conducted to measure greenhouse gas emissions and effects on wildlife of all mining operations in the state.
New York Senate Bill S-6486, introduced by democratic State Senator Kevin Parker and co-sponsored by democratic State Senator Rachel May, is currently under review by the senate’s Environmental Conservation Committee.
One report about the bill called bitcoin miners “bitcoin-hungry profiteers” and noted that “Upstate New York has recently become a hotbed of mining activity, and there could be more mines in the works.”
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Don’t Require Residency for City Cops The push to make police officers live where they work is unnecessary and unlikely to accomplish its objectives.
Public safety
As demands to defund the police continue to garner attention, activists and legislators are quietly repackaging older proposals, including a requirement for police officers to live in the cities where they serve. Residency requirements are often defended on the theory that officers who live in a community will be more likely to understand its residents and their way of life, but reformers also aim to create departments that mirror their cities’ racial and ethnic makeup. Such rules are unnecessary and, even if passed, unlikely to succeed.