Politics on the Hudson

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, D-Greenburgh, chairman of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, and Assemblyman Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, chairman of the Committee on Energy, will hold a public hearing Monday in Albany to examine the response of the Public Service Commission to last summer’s major power outages in Queens and Westchester County.

The hearing will start at noon at the State Education Building, 89 Washington Ave., with Patricia Acampora, chairwoman of the Public Service Commission, scheduled to testify.

Brodsky, Tonko and 25 other state and local legislators filed a petition last September calling for the PSC to convene a “prudency hearing” to examine ConEd’s response; the PSC has not done so. Brodsky, in announcing his hearing, said it will examine the status of that petition and, more broadly, “the PSC’s role in regulating the operations and maintenance practices of New York utilities.”