Jen Metzger
@jenmetzgerny.bsky.social
Ulster County Executive. Poli Sci PhD. Former State Senator, Hudson Valley & Catskills. Fighting for a healthy and sustainable world.
More lining of his own pockets in real estate deals with repressive governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
More lining of his own pockets in real estate deals with repressive governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
A shameless, patently illegal imperialist oil grab.
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
A shameless, patently illegal imperialist oil grab.
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.
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.
December 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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.
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.
Good for the climate and good for our wallets. Let’s get it into law.
Recently, @sarahana.bsky.social, @jenmetzgerny.bsky.social, Mayor Noble, For the Many, and more joined @renewableheatnow.bsky.social at Energy Square in Kingston urging @governor.ny.gov to sign the 100FT Rule Repeal to end an outdated rule costing New Yorkers millions.
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Mid-Hudson officials, groups call on Hochul to repeal gas-hookup rule
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Local and state officials and advocacy groups called on Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday to sign off on legislation ending the “100-foot rule,” which they say stymies the …
www.dailyfreeman.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Good for the climate and good for our wallets. Let’s get it into law.
EPA to stop doing its job. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
EPA to stop doing its job. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...
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:
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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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August 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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...
ulstercountyny.gov/news/executi...
“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...
Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils.
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“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...
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.
July 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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.
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...
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.
www.timesunion.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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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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
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.
cbsn.ws
May 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
Ulster County turned out big in Gardiner and around the county yesterday. #50501
April 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ulster County turned out big in Gardiner and around the county yesterday. #50501
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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.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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.
🏳️⚧️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.
Read the Executive Order at tinyurl.com/EO1-2025.
tinyurl.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🏳️⚧️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.
Read the Executive Order at tinyurl.com/EO1-2025.
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"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.
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"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.
“There was no right answer to the predicament in which we found ourselves,” says Karp. Cowardice.
This letter from Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp makes things worse. Basically offers rationale and justification for everyone else following in Paul Weiss’s footsteps and capitulating to Trump. BLUF: We capitulated and everyone else should as well.
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Brad Karp’s Message To Paul Weiss About Its Deal With The Trump Administration
Here’s what Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp sent to his colleagues on Sunday afternoon.
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“There was no right answer to the predicament in which we found ourselves,” says Karp. Cowardice.
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"The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20."
Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20."
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This is the 23-year-old gay hairdresser and makeup artist disappeared into a sadistic Salvadorian gulag because of his tattoos
March 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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“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.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...
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...
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.
www.politico.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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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.
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.
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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March 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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.
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.
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.
March 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
More keys to the federal government handed to the oil and gas industry
The new No. 2 at EPA "made nearly $3.2 million in 2024 representing a range of corporate interests against pollution cases and enforcement actions. His clients included Chevron, Sunoco Pipeline, and Energy Transfer..."
Cool cool cool.
Cool cool cool.
Lawyer for polluters set to make EPA return as second-in-command
David Fotouhi, Trump’s pick for No. 2 at EPA, would "bring anti-regulatory skills to a regulatory agency," said one public health expert.
www.exxonknews.org
March 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
More keys to the federal government handed to the oil and gas industry