“There will not be any option for municipalities to opt out.” “The new law will not have any loopholes that will undermine the intent of this measure,” Katy Zielinski said in a statement provided to the New York Times. Her spokeswoman reassured environmental activists earlier this week that the law would not include a loophole allowing localities to exempt themselves from the ban. Governor Kathy Hochul endorsed a ban on natural-gas hookups in new construction during her state-of-the-state address in January. “A first-in-the-nation, unconstitutional ban on natural gas hookups in new construction will drive up utility bills and increase housing costs,” state Senate minority leader Robert Ortt said in a prepared statement. The ban is expected to face serious legal challenges. New York Republicans and industry leaders opposed the natural gas ban, saying that it would raise costs for consumers, stress the electrical grid, and have little environmental benefit. Earlier this year, controversy erupted after reports said the Biden administration’s Consumer Product Safety Commission was considering restrictions, and possibly a ban, on natural-gas stoves. Democrats, who control the state Senate and Assembly, have faced intense pressure from environmental groups, who have taken aim at natural gas to combat climate change and indoor and outdoor air pollution.
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Experience Minakos adventures, before she became Sailor Venus, featuring a new, glittering cover, a fresh translation, and remastered interior art! A year before meeting Sailor Moon-and her destiny as a member of the Sailor Guardians-Minako was the first hero to find her calling. Book Synopsis Before Sailor Moon, there was Sailor V! Minako Aino is 13 years old when she meets a talking white cat named Artemis, who tells her something unbelievable: With a magic pen, she has the power to transform into the elegant, masked hero Sailor V. About the Book Minako Aino is 13 years old when she meets a talking white cat named Artemis, who tells her something unbelievable: With a magic pen, she has the power to transform into the elegant, masked hero Sailor V. Because of that, this book is an excellent companion to Janet Arnold's books, in which many of the same dresses have carefully charted dress patterns. Many of the dresses in this book are famous in their own way, in the collections of England. Bradfield has closely, carefully studied them in person and has produced excellent, clear drawings of them, inside and out, showing details of construction and pattern, as well as supplemental material and accessories. These dresses are often too fragile to exhibit, or even photograph clearly, but Ms. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930, by Nancy Bradfield, is a unique, detailed, highly useful collection of drawings of historic clothing, almost entirely women's, drawn from specimens in British collections. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life. In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late 'Happy Prince', who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter.Ī nightingale overhears a student complaining that the professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose a lizard, a butterfly and a daisy laugh at the student for doing so. It contains five stories: 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Devoted Friend', and 'The Remarkable Rocket'. The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.
2010 – Fall of Giants won the Libri Golden Book Award for Best Fiction Title in Hungary that year.
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