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With increased federal funding, bill supporters said they could advance several important transportation projects on Long Island, including redesigning the interchange connecting the Meadowbrook Parkway and the Southern State Parkway, and electrifying the LIRR’s Port Jefferson branch.

“After the previous administration sided with big corporations to undermine workers — from blocking overtime pay protections to making it harder to organize — my Administration has supported workers,” Biden said.

Brookhaven is one of only four Long Island towns to opt into the state's effort to legalize recreational marijuana. The others — Babylon, Riverhead and Southampton — have approved a total of six stores.

A selection of numerous projects across New York City and Long Island would demonstrate how New York can lead in the just transition to clean energy for our workforce and communities.

John Durso leads the fourth-largest union council in the country, representing over 250,000 members across 160 union locals in the region.

The newly rebid projects include one totaling around 24 miles from Fire Island that proposes to make landfall at Jones Beach State Park; another that will be located off the New England coast and transmit energy via a new cable from over 100 miles away; a third that proposes a cable that will mak