New York Environmental News: Feb 7, 2013

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Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Gibbs And Health Commissioner Farley Announce Expansion of Electronic Health Records Result In Major Health Care Improvements

Mayor Bloomberg Visits Department Of Sanitation Workers Preparing For Potential Snow Fall (Video)

(Mayor Bloomberg’s Press Office)

Council Votes To Assess Moving Power Lines Underground

City Council Examines City’s Evacuation And Transitional Shelter System

(NYC City Council Press Office)

Northeast Could Be Hit With Major Snowstorm

Plan Aims To Reconnect Residents With East River Waterfront

New York City Rats Creep Inland After Storm

Beaver Rooting Around At N.Y. Botanical Garden

(New York Times)

Northeast U.S. Carbon Market Expected Emissions To Tighten Cap

(Reuters)

New York Hires Seismologist With Fracking Industry Ties To Do Fracking Research

Hurricane Sandy Didn’t Kill NYC’s Rats — It Just Made Them Move Into Luxury Apartments

(Grist)

DEC Public Hearing On New Tappan Zee Bridge Draws Nobody

(Hudson Valley YNN)

DEC Awards Mohawk River Basin Program Grants

(NY DEC)

How NYC’s First $1.77 Billion In Sandy Recovery Money Will Be Spent

(Gothamist)

State May Miss Another Fracking Deadline

Lawmakers Get Input On Environmental Budget

Sweeping Emissions Cuts Proposed For Northeast

Governor Proposes Home Buyout Program In Sandy-Ravaged Areas

Adirondack Wilderness Opening To Public This Spring

(NYLCV)

Governor Cuomo’s Forward-Looking Floodplain Buy-Out Program Deserves Support

East Coast States Strengthen Power Plant Pollution-Cutting Program, Set Model For Nation

(NRDC Switchboard)

Advocates Urge Hudson River Protection At Tappan Zee Bridge Hearing

(The Journal News Lo Hud)

Bloomberg On (Developing) Plans For The Hurricane Sandy Recovery Money

Bloomberg On The Potential Benefits Of A Styrofoam Ban

(Capital New York)

NY Lawmakers Want Public Input On Fracking Review

With His Fracking Decision Looming, Gov. Cuomo’s Political Future Hangs In The Balance

New England At The End Of The Week

Airlines Waive Change Fees Ahead Of Storm

Styrofoam Ban In NYC?

Long Island’s Future Prosperity Depends On Public Transit

Old Christmas Trees Used For Dune Rebuilding In Sandy-Ravaged Communities

How Rockaway’s ‘Skid Row’ Is Healing After Sandy

Manhattan School Still Without Phone Service After Sandy

LOOK: Graffiti Artist Uses NYC Rooftops In Romantic Way

NYC-ARTS: Canstruction NYC 2012: Building Awareness and Breaking the Rules for a Good Cause

(Huffington Post)

Fracking Study Geologist Draws Critics

(Buffalo News)

Officials Speak Against Fracking At New York Capitol

(Saratogian)

Hurricane Sandy Aid Money Does Not Come Quickly, In A Dump Truck

New York City Will Not Get 38 Inches of Snow

Thanks To Sandy, It’s ‘Restaurant Week’ For Rats

(NY Magazine)

What Unfunded Mandate Ask Gas Drillers

(Capital Confidential)

Council Wants To Safeguard Power Lines From Future Storms

(Gotham Gazette)

What’s In The Water?

(City Atlas)

40 Green Codes Task Force Proposals Now Incorporated Into Laws And Practices

(Urban Green Blog)

Solar One Workforce Lab Offers New Certificate

(Solar One)

City Rats Displaced By Sandy Moved Inland, Residents Say

You Might Have Heard, There’s A Snowstorm Coming

(WNYC)

Yesterday’s Occupy The DEC Protest

(Occupy the Pipeline)

City Prepares For Wintry Blast

Tenant At Far Rockaway Building To Take Management To Court Over Rent Charged During Sandy Aftermath

(NY 1)

New Yorkers Are Chowing Down Fujis And Galas — Fruit Varieties Imported From Afar — While Upstate Farms Wither

(The New York World Columbia Journalism School)

Officials: As Construction Site, World Trade Center Vulnerable To Floods

(Transportation Nation)

NYC Considers Banning Styrofoam At All Food-Service Facilities

(Inhabitat)

Yoko Ono Turns Up The Anti-Fracking Heat

(Times Union)

Snow Headed For City Friday Triggers Flurry Of Storm Prep

Bloomberg Changes Tune On Recycling And Backs Styrofoam Ban

Kosciuszko Bridge Renovation Could Unearth Native American Artifacts

Organic Wine Store Brings Purest Vintages To Staten Island

(DNA Info)

Green-Wood Attempts To Revive Cemeteries As Parks

(The Epoch Times)

Danish Artist Uses Toxic Gowanus Sludge To Paint, Harvests Sludge Wearing A White Fur Hat

(Brooklyn Paper)

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