Colin Kinniburgh is a reporter at New York Focus, covering the state’s climate and environmental politics. He has worked in media for more than a decade, across print, television, audio, and online news, and participated in fellowship programs at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, the Metcalf Institute, and the NYU Stern School of Business. His reporting has appeared in outlets including France 24, Grist, Dissent, and The Nation.
Out of every dollar the gas tax suspension costs the state, less than 50 cents are going into New Yorkers’ pockets.
A much-debated moratorium wouldn’t affect any crypto mining projects under development, but an accompanying environmental study could bring unwelcome scrutiny.
Two years after the state banned plastic bags, many New York City businesses are still distributing them with little fear of consequences.
Renewable energy developers are hungry to build in New York, but staffing at the bodies charged with managing the process hasn’t kept up.
This summer’s heat and drought have driven New York farmers’ input costs up and their yields down, straining their finances and further pushing up food prices.
The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act turbocharges the market for electric cars at the expense of other forms of transit. A New York bill aims to help e-bikes catch up.
ConEd wants to jack up electric bills by 10 percent, and gas by 15 percent. Here’s what that would pay for.
Recent transmission projects could enable building owners to get out of upgrading their buildings for a decade, if Adams doesn’t intervene.
Experts say the state needs to spend at least $1 billion a year to cut pollution from buildings. Legislators are trying to get the governor closer to that figure.
The power industry is pushing a pair of little-noticed proposals that could shift the course of the state’s climate action.
“By April 1, it will be out or modified. It will not be this program,” one legislator predicted.
New York is building renewables - but it doesn’t have a plan to shut down the plants they’re supposed to replace.
New York was counting on federal money to help pay for its transition to clean energy, which will cost the state an estimated $15 billion each year.
The fight heated up at a hearing Wednesday, with debate centered on when, not if, a gas ban should go into effect.
Two progressive organizers opposed to the 485-a program just won City Council races but won’t take their seats until next year. Mayor Lovely Warren has directed the Council to vote on the renewal this week.
There’s a growing trend of landlords changing locks and shutting off utilities to get tenants out without going to court, tenant organizers say.
If concrete production were a country, it would be the world’s third largest carbon emitter. New York legislators want to clean it up.
Tenant groups are already turning to other upstate cities that could pass good cause this summer—and that could pave the way for statewide legislation.
Blocked at the state level, the campaign for “good cause eviction” is going local.
With a week left in the legislative session, New York lawmakers shelved a plan that aimed to revamp 25,000 NYCHA apartments.