{"id":131807,"date":"2026-02-12T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:16:07","slug":"state-senator-pushes-for-utility-bill-reform-in-new-york-decision-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131807\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senator Pushes for Utility Bill Reform in New York | Decision 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Utilities\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6985070a4d9fc.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>ONEONTA, N.Y. &#8212; State Sen. Peter Oberacker is taking steps to address high utility bills.<\/p>\n<p>Oberacker, who is running for New York&#8217;s 19th Congressional District seat, has proposed the NYS Ratepayer Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as a plan to hold utility companies accountable and guarantee core protections for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Oberacker is encouraging people on social media to sign his petition in support of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>He is challenging Democratic incumbent Josh Riley in the congressional race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP ONEONTA, N.Y. &#8212; State Sen. Peter Oberacker is taking steps to address high utility bills. Oberacker, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56432,56433,56431,9,11,10,49,51,50,56434],"class_list":{"0":"post-131807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-19th-congressional-district","9":"tag-congressional","10":"tag-josh-riley","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-oberacker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}