One of Abyss' best known games is Black Desert Online a MMORPG (a massively multiplayer online role playing game, for the uninitiated).What's the big deal? Despite having a rich culture to fall back on, Jin says many Korean game developers have focused on stories and plotlines that have largely focused on Western culture. Now, her work as the CEO of Pearl Abyss America includes sharing their games with the mainstream, which aim to offer an alternative to the Western perspective.
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“And right now, they're going to have to pay out of their own tax bills.” “There are huge issues still facing the state with regard to climate change there are staggering, staggering costs that New Yorkers are going to face,” Horner said. It would be financed by the oil industry.īlair Horner is with the New York Public Interest Research Group, which backs all three measures. It would cap energy bills at 6% of income for low- and middle-income families, saving an estimated $75 per utility customer.Īnd another bill would create a new Superfund to repair climate change caused by gasoline and other fossil fuel emissions. They said the process is not technically incineration because it does not use oxygen as a fuel or accelerant.Īnother measure promoted by environmental advocates and opposed by industry is called NY Heat. They also oppose the banning of a method they call “advanced recycling,” which they said differs with the environmentalists’ contention that it involves the burning of plastics. In a letter signed by 65 groups, they said the amendments were made without input from stakeholders, and that the changes would incorrectly classify too many plastics as toxic substances. I don't think this is a radical notion.”īut the American Chemistry Council, major plastics manufacturers, and the state’s Business Council remain opposed. “This should be something where our friends in industry take some responsibility for the waste that they generate in our homes. This should not be just the responsibility of the municipalities and the taxpayers,” Glick said. She said the new version would share more of the costs of reducing the packaging. Glick said the bill has been amended in recent days to win more votes. The sponsors of the measure are the chairs of the Senate and Assembly environmental committees, Peter Harckham and Deborah Glick. It would also ban a practice favored by the plastics industry to burn plastic materials that can’t be recycled because the recycling industry is now over capacity. One of the bills would cut the amount of plastic packaging, with a 50% reduction phased in over 12 years.
With the legislative session set to end later this week, advocates are pressing for bills that they say will help reduce climate change over the next decade.īut there’s also stiff opposition to the measures from the industries that would be affected.
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