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John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, said in the news release that region “cannot afford further delays to critical energy infrastructure.

The Gateway Development Commission — the New York and New Jersey board overseeing the $16 billion project — announced Wednesday morning it had received more than $200 million owed to the project by the federal government that had been withheld since October, when President Donald Trump declared t

TENs are a simple concept: If your neighbor’s house is too hot and yours is too cold, instead of spending more money to increase your home temperature, interconnected pipes will share their excess heat instead.

New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows union representation grew by 463,000 in 2025, bringing the total number of workers represented by union contracts to 16.5 million.

The agreement, if it holds, would allow the Senate to act before a Friday midnight deadline to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Josh Slaughter, Long Island political coordinator for the Mason Tenders District Council, a union of 5,000 construction laborers, described the contract as an "on-call contract" that allowed the county quick access to laborers for repair work without needing a bid process.