Regional News > New York And Wind Power: Can It Take Off? Projects To Add Wind Power For City Gain Momentum Editorial: A Tappan Zee Greenway Putting Food Craft Above Health Code Food Co-op Meets, Talks And Talks (NY Times) NY Awarded For RGGI’s Economic Benefits; NJ Lags Behind (NRDC) EPA, N.J. Agree: 2,112 Waterways Polluted (Asbury Park Press) DEC/DEP ... Read More »
A new environmental organization is trying to channel Upper West Siders’ competitive spirit into reducing the neighborhood’s carbon footprint, and it’s starting out with the backing of several prominent local leaders. At an event at the Jewish Community Center on Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street on February 27th, the organization Carbon Squeeze unveiled a neighborhood-wide competition that encourages residents to ... Read More »
Agreement Commits NYC to Match Funding In State Program and Provide $3.7 Million in Financial Aid for Homes That Might Be Affected by Leaking Aqueduct Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland announced that DEP today sent the contract for the Wawarsing buyout assistance effort to Ulster County for approval by its legislature. The buyout assistance is for homeowners in part of ... Read More »
Manta rays are disappearing all over the world, but that doesn’t stop unscrupulous businesses from selling their parts. We’ve found manta ray leather boots and wallets for sale on Alibaba.com, a very large and well-known commerce site. This is nothing new: Three years ago several groups of ocean activists, including Oceana supporters like yourself, petitioned Alibaba.com to stop selling shark ... Read More »
New York City has proposed a plan to respond to sewage pollution in the Newtown Creek, and a comment period ending March 9 is the public’s best chance to ask tough questions about it. This plan will govern pollution levels from combined sewage overflows – the discharge of raw sewage during rain storms – for the next 20 years. The ... Read More »
Regional News > Climate Change Could Cause Killer Hurricanes In NYC: A Simulation Model By Princeton Researchers Warns Of Storms “The Likes Of Which Have Not Been Been” (Chicago Tribune) The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Wins 2012 CBC Prize For Public Service Innovation (CBCNY) New York Rulings Could Embolden Towns To Ban Fracking (Thompson Reuters) Assembly Approves Bill To Regulate ... Read More »
Yesterday, the White House applauded news that TransCanada would go forward with building the southern leg of Keystone XL, promising to help expedite the permits necessary to complete the pipeline’s route from Cushing, Okla. to the refineries and shipping ports of Port Arthur, Texas. Breaking up the pipeline in this way is quite simply TransCanada’s latest end run around the ... Read More »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on the annual “Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2010” (Inventory) draft report. The Inventory is the United States’ official estimate of total national greenhouse gas emissions, and is developed annually to meet commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The draft report will be ... Read More »
Virtually all of us have needed antibiotics at some point, and we want them to keep working when we or our kids need them again. But these essential medicines are under increasing threat from growing antibiotic resistance. The unnecessary use of antibiotics in animals is a key culprit in the rise of drug-resistant bacteria that pose a growing public health ... Read More »
The bi-partisan New York Solar Jobs Act is making its way through Albany. Its passage would mean gigawatts-worth of new solar development, tens of thousands of green jobs and billions in local economic output. But naysayers are doing all they can to derail the bill. It’s time to show lawmakers that you support a brighter energy future in New York! Developing ... Read More »
Regional News > Along Shellbank Basin In Queens, A Stench Of Dead Fish (NY Times) Hudson River Fish Concerns Continue For Indian Point (The Daily Larchmont) NYSERDA Recognizes Outstanding Home Builders And Energy Raters In New York ENERGY STAR Homes Program (NYSERDA) New York: Marcellus Shale 101 (The Nature Conservatory) Residents Get First Peek At Proposed Bike Share Locations (Park ... Read More »
Options to streamline process would help state and local permitting authorities WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing not to change the greenhouse gas (GHG) permitting thresholds for the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V Operating Permit programs. Today’s proposal is part of EPA’s common-sense, phased-in approach to GHG permitting under the Clean Air Act. EPA ... Read More »
Agencies publish environmental justice strategies designed to ensure that all communities are protected from environmental harm and benefit from federal programs WASHINGTON — Today, federal agencies, led by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), released environmental justice strategies, implementation plans and progress reports, outlining steps agencies will take to protect communities facing greater ... Read More »
The US Department of Housing And Urban Development (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants Program is aimed at helping communities develop and implement a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy to achieve three core goals: 1. Housing: Transform distressed public and assisted housing into energy efficient, mixed-income housing that is physically and financially viable over the long-term; 2. People: Support positive outcomes for ... Read More »
Citizens Committee for New York City awards grants to groups of neighbors working collaboratively to improve their communities. The grants are specifically for groups based in low income neighborhoods across the city. Recent awards have enabled neighbors to come together to make healthy food available in their communities, transform empty lots into community gardens, organize tenants to advocate effectively for ... Read More »
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