Rugged nature lover Greg Ball's hair remains miraculously perfect even during the most strenuous outdoor activity.
Assemblyman Greg Ball likes to paint himself as conservative conservationist. His website states:
Greg Ball is a born outdoorsman; he’s been hiking and scouting the hills and valleys of the Hudson Valley since he was a boy. Sustainability initiatives and farmland preservation makeup one of the cornerstones of Greg’s political platforms…In the Senate, Greg will fight for us in Albany to ensure that our “pecial [sic] environmental nooks and crannies” will be protected for generations of New Yorkers.
However, when it came time to support an environmental measures that also made fiscal sense for the state, Ball balked and backed beverage business interests over the interests of the public. Last year, the legislature enacted bigger better bottle bill to expand the state’s 5-cent deposit to cover noncarbonated, nonalcoholic beverages such as sports drinks and bottled water and require the beverage distributors to transfer unclaimed deposits to the state’s Environmental Protection Fund, making these deposits the main revenue source for the fund (previously, this money had gone to the beverage companies). This legislation was supported by the vast majority of New York’s environment advocates, including Environmental Advocates of New York, the Sierra Club and the New York Farm Bureau.
Greg Ball, in a somewhat surprising move for a “born outdoorsman,” but a completely predictable move for an Albany insider, voted to deny the
Environmental Protection Fund badly needed resources to benefit the beverage companies whose unrecycled product packaging is all to often disposed of at public expense.
True naturalists have a saying, “Take Only Pictures and Leave Only Footprints”. In the case of a false friend of the environment like Assemblyman Ball, this slogan should be modified accordingly: “Take Only Posed Pictures and Leave Only Pepsi Bottles.”
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