The Federal Trade Commission has backed proposed New York legislation that aims to be the first sweeping “right-to-repair” law in the United States. At press time, the bill was set to be sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The group New York Lawyers for the Public Interest had already endorsed the act, chiefly as a means of alleviating the harms that electronic waste mismanagement imposes on environmental justice communities.

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