Breeding Females Found in Oneida System The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and its collaborative partners achieved a long-awaited milestone in their efforts to restore lake sturgeon in the Oneida Lake system, the agency announced today. In April a researcher at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Sciences discovered two female lake sturgeon carrying eggs downstream of ... Read More »
Project is One of Eight Regional Parks Being Transformed Under PlaNYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe today broke ground on improvements to Soundview Park in the Bronx, one of the eight regional parks being transformed under PlaNYC, the City’s long-term plan for a greener, greater New York. The regional parks address the need for open space and ... Read More »
Commissioner Benepe Oversaw Major Expansion of New York City’s Parks System and Development of New Waterfront Parks in All Five Boroughs White Has Led the City’s Center for Economic Opportunity Since 2006, Including its Successful Fundraising Efforts; Its Programs Are Now Being Replicated in Cities Across the Country Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today appointed Veronica M. White, the founding Executive ... Read More »
From First-Of-Its-Kind Design Competition to Reality, Unique Project Achieves High Standard for Sustainable, Affordable Urban Development Via Verde Is City’s Latest Achievement in Ongoing Effort to Rebuild and Revitalize Once Blighted South Bronx Neighborhood Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, Housing Development Corporation President ... Read More »
TEDxManhattan is pleased to launch the TEDxManhattan Challenge – we challenge you to work with a group of people in your community anywhere in the United States on a project related to sustainable food and farming. Start a garden at a senior center; start a farmers market; develop a cooking class at your child’s school; create a Food Policy Council ... Read More »
The following is the text of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s weekly radio address as prepared for delivery on 1010 WINS News Radio for Sunday, June 17, 2012. “Good morning and Happy Father’s Day. This is Mayor Mike Bloomberg. “New Yorkers of all ages are pausing today to reflect on the role fathers have in shaping our lives. As a father, ... Read More »
Regional News > Bronx Professor’s Accidental Discovery Makes Plants Climate-Change Resilient (New York Daily News) Albany Bill To Ban Indoor Tanning By Teenagers Under 17 Restaurant Industry Moves Against Gas Drilling Trying To Keep Drinking Fountains Flowing In New York City Parks (New York Times) New Fracking Deal Unlocks Some Leases (Wall Street Journal) Hydraulic Fracturing Supporters, Opponents Face Off ... Read More »
The U.S. Senate is now considering the Farm Bill, and may vote any day on an amendment to improve the treatment of more than 250 million egg-laying hens. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has filed the amendment, No. 2252, with a bipartisan list of cosponsors — and The Humane Society urgently needs your help to pass it. This Farm Bill amendment ... Read More »
Right now the U.S. Senate is working to hammer out the final details on the farm bill and it isn’t pretty. While a number of important reforms have been won, like getting rid of wasteful direct payments, agribusiness lobbyists have succeeded in larding the bill up with billions in inefficient programs that harm America’s farmers, our environment and eaters everywhere. ... Read More »
Let’s Take The Devocalization Ban To The Finish Line! We Can Do It But Only With Your Help! Your Continued Calls To The NY State Senate Are Urgently Needed Lady was given up after being devocalized. Meet her adopter here. Video link: http://youtu.be/Gw4t-6rzDdo Thanks to your calls, the New York State Assembly passed A3431D, banning devocalization of dogs and cats, ... Read More »
BREAKING: This morning, the Department of Environmental Conservation’s plans to begin fracking in New York leaked to the New York Times. It’s not pretty.[1] The plan would allow fracking to begin right away in New York’s Southern Tier — one of the poorest parts of upstate New York. But we believe that a child in Broome County deserves clean water ... Read More »
New standards that will greatly reduce the amount of toxic mercury being spewed by power plants are under attack. The Senate will soon vote on a bill by Senator Inhofe (R-OK) that would repeal mercury standards issued earlier this year by the Environmental Protection Agency. The standards, which are more than a decade overdue, also cut other toxic air pollution ... Read More »
Senator Jim Risch of Idaho has filed an amendment to the Farm Bill which the Senate is debating this week. This amendment could open most of the 397 units of the National Park System to hunting–same as the bill passed by the House of Representatives in April, the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act (H.R. 4089). The bill includes language that purports to ... Read More »
The New York Times reported today “…the Cuomo administration is pursuing a plan to limit the controversial drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing to portions of several struggling New York counties along the border with Pennsylvania, and to permit it only in communities that express support for the technology.” “If true, the Governor’s proposal to only drill in economically disadvantaged ... Read More »
Regional News > Challenge To New York’s Carbon Trading Fails N.Y. Finances A Switch To Cleaner Heating Oils Drilling In New York New York Will Help Finance A Switch To Cleaner Heating Oils Suit Filed To Stop FreshDirect Plan For A South Bronx Complex (New York Times) State Supreme Court Tosses Anti-RGGI Lawsuit Gov’t Cleanup Jobs Pay $51.71/Hour In Hudson ... Read More »
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