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Jen Metzger

@jenmetzgerny.bsky.social
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Ulster County Executive. Poli Sci PhD. Former State Senator, Hudson Valley & Catskills. Fighting for a healthy and sustainable world.

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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Thanks to all who came out for this great discussion of Judith’s new book, “the Problem with Plastics,” with Adam Mahoney! Now let’s get the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act passed and signed into law.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Delaying climate action is unaffordable. My OpEd on why weakening New York’s climate law is a bad idea: www.dailyfreeman.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Ulster Executive Jen Metzger guest column: Delaying climate action is unaffordable
By Jen Metzger, Ulster County Executive Backtracking on New York’s Climate Act will harm, not help, energy affordability. The high cost of our fossil fuel dependence couldn’t be clearer. The U.S. war...
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We can improve hiring and retention in the public sector by fixing Tier 6 of the state retirement system and reducing the retirement age from 63 to 55 (like public employees in Tier 4). If you’ve worked 30 years in a job, you deserve to retire.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/01/2026
The Trump administration is seeking to deport two men who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.
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DHS seeking to deport two men who said fellow ICE detainee was killed
The two men’s eyewitness accounts of the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at a Texas detention camp differ from the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the incident.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/01/2026
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Very happy to see this funding boost for Empower+, which I’ve been pushing hard for. The program helps low- and moderate-income households make energy efficiency improvements that permanently reduce energy bills, with benefits for the climate & public health.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Good for the climate and good for our wallets. Let’s get it into law.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A great night.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
No kings.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
EPA to stop doing its job. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
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E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Last week, I spoke at a virtual hearing of the U.S. EPA against rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, which would be reckless, dangerous, and contrary to the agency’s mission. My full statement here: ulstercountyny.gov/news/executi...
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Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger Calls U.S. EPA’s Proposed Repeal of Endangerment Finding ‘Reckless’ and ‘Dangerous’ at EPA Public Hearing this Morning | Ulster County
Kingston, NY - County Executive Jen Metzger appeared before a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) panel in a virtual public hearing this morning to oppose EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's plan to...
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
“This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic,” said Janet Yellen, former Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chair. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...
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Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Today I joined NYS Attorney-General Letitia James and other NY elected officials in demanding immediate and unfettered delivery of food, medicine, and other essential resources to address the staggering humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To allow such suffering and starvation is inhumane.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The recently signed federal budget law is potentially very harmful to Ulster County and our communities, but New York State has a path forward to reduce the harm, as I explain in an Op-ed published in the Albany Times Union today: www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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Commentary: Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' will hurt struggling New Yorkers. Here's how state lawmakers can fight back.
We can patch up our safety net by making sure corporations and the wealthiest households pay their fair share of state taxes.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 11/05/2025
NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. cbsn.ws/4iUkkyp
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NOAA ending its "billion-dollar disasters" database
NOAA announced that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Ulster County turned out big in Gardiner and around the county yesterday. #50501
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🏳️‍⚧️Today I issued an Executive Order reaffirming the County government's commitment to prevent discrimination based on gender identity or expression. #TransDayofVisibility Read the Executive Order at tinyurl.com/EO1-2025.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“There was no right answer to the predicament in which we found ourselves,” says Karp. Cowardice.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20."
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is the 23-year-old gay hairdresser and makeup artist disappeared into a sadistic Salvadorian gulag because of his tattoos
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nat’l faculty rights group, described the move as the greatest incursion into academic freedom & free speech since Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s crusade against communism in the 1950s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...
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Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed
Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Shameful USDA cuts to farm-to-school and farm-to-pantry grant programs. These grant programs do so much good, nourishing our kids and food insecure families and seniors while also helping our local farmers. (www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/03/2025
President Trump ordered federal employees to return to the office, repeatedly saying they couldn't be productive from home. But Trump has signed executive orders and a memorandum from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, according to an NBC News tracker. In other words, he's worked from home.
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Federal workers cast Trump's many Mar-a-Lago trips as working from home
“It’s about who’s making the rules,” one federal worker said of the president ordering employees back to the office even as he’s spent nearly every weekend in Florida.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
72% of NYers & 66% of Americans support a 100% fossil fuel-free economy by 2050 (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.) We’re working to do our part in Ulster Co but NYS needs to step it up to meet Climate Act requirements. And Trump & co need to keep their hands off the IRA and IIJA.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
More keys to the federal government handed to the oil and gas industry
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 02/03/2025
Stalinesque removal from public memory.
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Jen Metzger @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The closest Social Security Office to our county has been closed. A heartless move by DOGE affecting the elderly, the disabled, wounded veterans, and surviving spouses and children.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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