New York Environmental News: March 5, 2013

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Governor Cuomo Announces $6.4 Million In Funding To Help Farmers Reduce Costs Through Energy Efficiency Projects

Governor Cuomo Awards Competitive Education Grants To Four Districts That Found More Than $21 Million In Efficiency Savings And Can Serve As Models To Other Districts

Governor Cuomo Announces Progress In Beach Restoration Program

Governor Cuomo Announces $285,000 In Funding For Third Year Of Freshconnect Farmers’ Market Program

(Governor Cuomo’s Press Office)

Schumer: With Initial FEMA And Insurance Payments To Homeowners Running Out, Thousands Of Sandy Victims Facing Potential Foreclosures And Late Fees On Mortgage Payments

Schumer Announces Federal Funds Will Be Used To Rebuild Vital Protection Along Staten Island Beaches

(Senator Schumer’s Press Office)

Speaker Quinn, Finance Chair Recchia, Minority Leader Oddo, Community Development Chair Vann Call On Albany To Fix Property Tax Law To Distinguish Between Home Improvements And Necessary Post-Sandy Restorations

(NYC City Council)

Mayor Bloomberg Joins Phipps Houses, Related Companies And Monadnock Construction To Break Ground On First Two Residential Buildings At Hunter’s Point South On Queens Waterfront

(Mayor Bloomberg’s Press Office)

Gag Order: Town Board Of Sanford, NY Decides Community Can No Longer Discuss Fracking At Town Meetings

(Alternet)

Key Player In NY Fracking Review Heading To Private Sector

Assembly Moving Forward With Hydrofracking Moratorium

Farmers Push For Tax Breaks In Albany

(Politics on the Hudson)

Keystone XL And New York Fracking Delays – “Mass Hysteria!”

(Forbes)

Cuomo’s Progressive Plans Hinge On Rejecting Fracking

(Environmental Health News)

Sources: Cuomo Came Close On Fracking Plan

(Times Union)

Cuomo Says RFK Jr. Isn’t Swaying Him On Fracking

NY Announces $6.4M For Farmers

(Politics on the Hudson)

Residents Sue FreshDirect Over Move To The Bronx

More People Commute To Manhattan Than Any Other County

(New York Times)

FEMA Implements Go Green Initiative to Reduce Environmental Impact One Paper at a Time

Beth Israel Hospital’s 19,000 sq. ft. Green Roof Is Dotted With Diamond-Shaped Skylights

Massive Hunter’s Point South Affordable Housing Project Breaks Ground In Long Island City

(Inhabitat)

Left High And Dry By Insurers, Homeowners Reluctantly Borrow Sandy Rebuilding Funds

(The New York World)

Direct Democracy At Park Slope Greens Meeting, Green Campaign School In March

(Green Party of Brooklyn)

City to Fast-Track Flood Protection Construction On Staten Island Beaches

City Breaks Ground On First Waterfront Development After Sandy

(DNA Info)

Winter Storm Saturn Already Has Scary Name, Will Probably Just Be Rain In NYC

(NY Magazine)

Ocean Acidification Affects Northeastern U.S. Coasts More, Study Finds

LOOK: Inside The New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show

(Huffington Post)

Bloomberg’s Homeless Policy Under Fire As Shelter Population Grows

(WNYC)

New York Subway Riders Swipe Back At Fare Hikes

(Grist)

NYPD: 1,297 Pedestrians And Cyclists Injured, 20 Killed In Traffic In January

Mike Bloomberg’s NYPD Traffic Enforcement Blind Spot

(Streets Blog)

Refined Plans Unveiled For Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Site

(Planetizen)

NY MTA Says Charging $1 For A New Metrocard Is Not, As One Rider Claims, “Ridiculous!”

(Transportation Nation)

This Was The Week That Was: Historic Preservation In East Midtown

(Municipal Art Society)

First Ever Coop Academy For Kids

We’re In The Running To Win A Business Plan Competition!

(Green Worker Cooperatives)

Bike Corral On Ave B

(Gamma Blog)

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(NY DEC)

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(Grow to Learn NYC)

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(TreesNY)

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