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Battery energy storage is critical infrastructure — which in turn means jobs and investment. When Long Island builds a utility-scale battery project, electricians, operating engineers, laborers, ironworkers and Teamsters go to work. Apprentices earn while they learn.

Assemb. Michaelle Solages (D-Elmont), who is part of the board, said the races are expected to bring an economic boon to surrounding communities.

"The oysters we grow are not for consumption; they're for restoration purposes only," Michel, a Save the Great South Bay board member, said. "They provide shoreline stabilization. They help break waves down.

A state judge has dismissed the Village of Garden City's lawsuit that sought to nullify the environmental review and rezoning of the Nassau Hub in Uniondale.

The approved contract includes a 3.5% raise, as of Sept. 1, followed by 3% increases annually for the next three years and a 3.25% increase in 2030.

The interviews are part of a project of Dr. Benjamin Luft, director of Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program, which monitors and treats more than 16,000 9/11 responders for related health conditions.