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 climate reporting earned a New York Press Club award.
No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.
Fossil fuel interests have enlisted prominent former elected officials to make the case that gas is here to stay.
Some climate activists want the mayor to take a stronger stance. He previously said the state’s climate law “is not a suggestion. It is a mandate.”
Under the governor’s proposal, the most concrete deadline for climate action would be pushed out to the end of her potential second term.
Attorney General Letitia James alleges Attyx “built its business by defrauding consumers.”
ConEd says New York’s battery boom could overload the grid. The industry and its allies are pushing back.
The Senate and Assembly are resisting Hochul’s push to relax New York’s emissions targets and are instead pressing for renewed clean energy funding.
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
A bill introduced by Assemblymember Anna Kelles aims to harness home batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean tech to meet reliability needs.
The energy expert discusses his vision for a more flexible grid — and what’s standing in the way.
Officials have long eyed “virtual power plants,” which coordinate energy use across thousands of homes, but the state has lagged in adopting them.
New York utilities spend $1 billion a year replacing old gas pipes. New legislation would force them to reveal where that money is being spent.
State officials have voiced renewed interest in changing how New York counts its greenhouse gas emissions.
Lawmakers will be grilling top state energy and environmental officials Wednesday in a marathon budget hearing. Here are some of the questions we’d ask.
Hochul outlined a slew of proposals on Tuesday to curb energy bills and clean up the grid, but her push for a nuclear energy renaissance looms over them all.
New York’s building trade unions are turning out in force to try to save the mammoth energy projects from Trump’s latest attack.
The state plans to stabilize the Empower+ program with a record amount of money from the pollution pricing program RGGI.
Recently adopted environmental regulations have added months to New York’s already yearslong energy permitting process, colliding with new deadlines for federal subsidies.
Outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city’s pension funds to reconsider $42 billion in investments with the firm, but it may fall to his successor to take action.
New York is ready to collect data on emissions, but is fighting a court order to cut them.