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The Sand Land mine is defying multiple orders to cease operations. Politicians are at a loss for how to respond.
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The mayor is putting New York City’s landmark climate and jobs law in jeopardy, our columnist argues.
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A major wind and solar developer is defecting from industry ranks, arguing the state shouldn’t bail out struggling projects.
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How a Hamptons mine, in defiance of New York’s top court, keeps trucking out precious piles of sand.
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Will putting a price on trash keep the state’s garbage from overflowing?
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New York’s labyrinthine “rate case” process, explained.
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They’re on their way, officials promise. But they’re years late.
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Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.
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The legislation follows New York Focus reporting that showed a major gas utility may have been siphoning off customers’ bills to fund an anti-electrification campaign.
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In Syracuse, the I-81 viaduct has two groups at war. One wants to tear it down, one wants to leave it up — all in the name of environmental justice.
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In New York’s third-largest city, locals are sick of skyrocketing bills and dirty fuel sources. They’re fighting against long odds for the public to own the grid.
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Massena residents fought the local utility to bring their electric grid under public control. Forty years later, they say it’s still paying off.
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Air-polluting “peaker” plants were a top priority for closure in New York’s green transition. But the state isn’t building clean energy fast enough to replace them on time.
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Trade groups are spending big to fight legislation that would restrict single-use packaging and bar their preferred “chemical recycling” technologies.
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Biofuels, hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear: These are some of the technologies that will be on the table as New York weighs how to clean up its grid over the next 17 years.
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National Fuel customers paid for a website directing New Yorkers to oppose electrification mandates, documents show.
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New York law requires utilities to build out gas infrastructure at customers’ expense. The Senate wants to close the spigot.
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Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.
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Comptroller Brad Lander is scrutinizing the climate impacts of private equity investments — an area his counterpart in Albany has yet to address.
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Last-minute legislation would transform New York’s climate law, allowing significantly higher emissions over the next decade.