New York Environmental News: March 13, 2013

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Schumer: After Months Of Pressing, Announces Feds Agree To Fully Pick Up Tab For Four Major NY Coastal Protection Projects Worth Over 1 Billion Dollars, That Will Protect Hundreds Of Thousands Of Homeowners

Schumer Launches Plan To Create Boon For NY Apple Producers

(Senator Schumer’s Press Office)

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $2.5 Million In FEMA Funding For FDNY After Superstorm Sandy

(Senator Gillibrand’s Press Office)

U.S. Will Pay Millions More For Hurricane Sandy Repairs in New York

Behind Soda Industry’s Win, A Phalanx Of Sponsored Minority Groups

Courts Rein In Bloomberg’s Power to Make Policy

Soda Legal Battle May Outlast Bloomberg’s Tenure

Views Mixed After Limits On Sweet Drinks Are Blocked

Eight States, Including NY Approve Horse Racing Medication Standard

Up For A Vote, The Pay Phone Of The Future

At A Beach Club, A Battle To Rebuild After The Storm

In New York, A Backlog Of Tree-Stump Removal

Contest To Name Brooklyn Park Lawn Is Halted As It Gets Personal

(New York Times)

Creating A Low-Carbon Empire State: A Thought-Provoking New Report, And NRDC’s Own Recommendations, Point The Way

(NRDC)

(Press Connects)

Bloomberg Announces Mayors’ Summit To Fight Climate Change

(CBS News)

New York And New Jersey Offering Almost $200 Million For Sandy Buyouts

(Wall Street Journal)

State Seeks Federal Aid For Sandy Victims Left Short By Insurance

(The New York World)

Quinn Takes A Strong Stand On Traffic-Enforcement Cameras, But Only Some Of Them

(Capital New York)

NYC’s Mayoral Candidates Offer Uninspiring Outlook On Transit

(Planetizen)

Gotham’s Charge To Nation’s EV Infrastructure Leader Begins In Battery Park City

(Green Buildings NYC)

NYC’s Green Roofs Are Teeming With Fungus

(Atlantic Cities)

FEMA Shows Expanded Flood-Risk Zones For Red Hook And Gowanus

Many Staten Islanders Stand Their Ground Amid Sandy Buyouts

Dolphin Spotted In East River

Ailing Downtown Hospital Cuts Entire Residency Program

Officials Push For Metro-North To Roll Through The East Bronx By 2019

City Appeals Soda Ban Decision

Two Harlem Parks Headed In Different Directions In New Park Group’s Survey

Group Looks To Start Weekly Farmers Market In Hunters Point

Cops Hunting For Muggers Who Stabbed Cyclist In Flushing Meadows Park

(DNA Info)

Is Your Soda Killing You? Why Mayor Bloomberg Got It Right

Bloomberg: Poor Need Soda Ban Because They Can’t ‘Take Care Of Themselves’

How The View From Apartment Windows Affects Your Health And Well-being

(Huffington Post)

NYPD Responds To Pressure & Increases Size Of Unit That Investigates Crashes

Does Driving Twice The Speed Limit And Killing A Family Count As “Morally Blameworthy”?

Urinetown: LIRR Woodside Station Elevator Breaks Down From Excessive Piss

Alleged Christmas Eve Dognapper Thought Puppy Was Homeless, So He Sold It

(Gothamist)

Ties Between Advocacy Groups And The Soda Industry, Continued

(Capital New York)

New Study Shows How New York Could Be Powered By Sun, Water And Wind Power By 2050

NYC Kids Can Earn Cash For Their Schools By Entering The City’s Golden Apple Awards

8 Green Designs Included In AIA New York’s 2013 Architect Awards Winners

Model Summer Rayne Oakes Turns Her Brooklyn Apartment Into A Greenhouse Filled With 200+ Plants

(Inhabitat)

Minority Groups Oppose Soda Ban, Insist Donations From Beverage Industry Aren’t a Factor

Park Group Won’t Make Brooklyn Meadow A Photographer’s Memorial

(NY Magazine)

Mayor Bloomberg Thinks Mississippi’s ‘Anti-Bloomberg Bill’ Is ‘Just Farce’

Holy Trinity! City Council Committees Give Hudson Square Rezoning Stamp Of Approval

Manhattan, Brooklyn And Queens Will Soon Know How Late Their Buses Are

(NY Observer)

Months After Sandy, S.I. Couple Cannot Get Aid For Home Repairs

(NY 1)

Top To Bottom, NY Legal System Fails The Vulnerable On Our Streets

(Streets Blog)

BROAD CHANNEL: Hurricane Heros: Volunteer Firefighters Honored For Work During Sandy

(Times Ledger)

New York: If Electric Vehicles Can Make It Here…

A Bronx Kale: Affordable Housing Meets Hydroponic Farming In Morrisania

(Mother Nature Network)

2013 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal Gala

Arts Forum On Grand Central Terminal: Design For The Next Century

(Municipal Art Society)

Brooklyn Bridge Park Won’t Name Lawn For Photojournalist Killed In Libya

(Metro NY)

Upcoming Earth Institute Spring Courses In Conservation, Ecology & Policy

(State of the Planet)

City To Give $2 Million To Remake A Tribeca Garden And Plaza

(Tribeca Trib)

A New Word For NYC: Bioswales

Sustainable Date Night: Chelsea And The West Village

(City Atlas)

A New Bus To Solve Their Problems? Spring Creek Residents Not So Sure

(Brooklyn Ink)

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