Bob Smith discusses the effect of coronavirus on the state legislature, the budget, and a new recycling bill being drafted for his Environment and Energy Committee

By Frank Brill, EnviroPolitics Editor

We had a chance last week to speak, via Zoom, with Bob Smith, who is chairman of the sometimes contentious but always lively Senate Environment and Energy Committee.

The main topic, of course, was the coronavirus which has supplanted every other news topic for months. Senator Smith discusses the effects of the pandemic on the state legislature and its delayed 2020-2021 state budget that has lawmakers facing very difficult financial decisions.

He also has an answer to when, at long last, we might see his committee return to action and he also provided a teaser on an upcoming recycling bill that’s likely to be of considerable interest to both the environmental and business communities.

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