(NY) The New York Times -A federal judge has blocked state officials from implementing an expansion of the state’s recycling laws that would include a deposit on water bottles, a delay that could cost the state tens of millions of dollars that it was counting on to balance its budget this year.

In an order issued late last week, Judge Thomas P. Griesa of United States District Court in Manhattan ordered state officials to wait until next April 1 before requiring retailers to collect a 5-cent deposit on bottled water. More