By Jazmine Knight While Mylar or foil balloons may look nice at graduation parties and other summer celebrations, they can pose safety concerns for those who aren’t careful. Evergy is warning ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) asks families celebrating graduations to not release balloons, as they can get tangled in powerlines and cause outages ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Graduation season is right around the corner, and Evergy officials are encouraging customers to celebrate safely, especially when it comes to mylar balloons. Often used in ...

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The windows of the CUNY School of Law are lined with graduation balloons, but a celebration is not top of mind for Eric Horowitz and Nusayba Hammad. "I'm very frustrated," Horowitz said.

HB6481 would replace the current law and would forbid the release of any balloons at all. Balloons deployed by National Weather Service or any other research entity are exempt.

Let’s keep the lights shining brightly on our graduates without any outages caused by Mylar balloons.” If you see a Mylar balloon caught in a power line, you can report it to 888-DIAL-PNM.