ALBANY—It was finally time to pop the cork.
On Friday night, I found a bunch of environmental and good-government advocates standing in a light drizzle on the sidewalk outside DeJohn’s restaurant on Lark Street, celebrating the passage of an expanded bottle bill. It passed Friday, along with the rest of the state budget.
Here’s a photo I grabbed of Laura Haight, who has been advocating for this for longer than she likes to admit. Judith Enck, David Paterson’s deputy secretary for the environment, was also there, but ducked out of the picture. A bunch of folks from NYPIRG were present–I saw Blair Horner and Bill Mahoney–as well as Katherine Nadeau of Environmental Advocates.
