ALBANY â The Clean Slate bill is set to pass the state Legislature before session ends this week after lawmakers negotiated a deal overnight to change the measure to seal, and no longer expunge, New Yorkersâ criminal records after completing a prison sentence.
Initially, Clean Slate was set to automatically seal and expunge New Yorkersâ criminal record after one year for misdemeanors and three years for certain felonies after release from prison.
The bill was reintroduced overnight to allow for the automatic sealing of misdemeanors after three years and felonies after seven years, but not expungement of records.
âWe got a deal, now, it just has to move through conference again,â Clean Slate sponsor Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-Queens, said Tuesday.
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By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 7:34 PM ET May. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:34 PM EDT May. 27, 2021
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In 2014, Greenidge Generation, owned by Atlas Holdings, took over a formerly defunct coal-fired power plant in Torrey, near Seneca Lake.
Later, Greenidge pivoted to mining cryptocurrency, which needs both fresh water and lots of inexpensive electricity. Upstate New York has both, which may lead to more cryptocurrency mining.
The allure of cryptocurrency is that transactions are instantaneous, secure and very difficult to trace. The most concerning problem with cryptocurrency is that mining it takes terawatts of energy, and thousands of computers running all day and night.
Activists want teachers fund to divest from coal
Massive teachers retirement fund owns coal stocks in China, India
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Student climate activists have been in the forefront of the fossil fuels divestment movement.Times Union file photo
ALBANY A fossil fuel divestment group took aim at the teachers retirement system on Tuesday, urging the organization to divest of the coal stocks they say continue to make up a substantial part of their portfolio. It may be easier said then done, however.
“NYSTRS is increasing its exposure to the coal industry,” said Liam Smith, of New Youth Climate Leaders and Divest NY which have been urging public sector pension funds to divest from coal and other fossil fuel industries they say are adding to greenhouse gases.