Hochul argues the office would be redundant, because the state already protects utility consumers.
A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against big oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
The fight heated up at a hearing Wednesday, with debate centered on when, not if, a gas ban should go into effect.
With $750 million from the federal government, Albany asked New Yorkers in 2013 to decide how to protect their communities from future storms. Planning participants say their projects have stalled.
The moratorium expires in December. But New York hasn’t distributed a single dollar of the $70 million of federal water assistance.
If concrete production were a country, it would be the world’s third largest carbon emitter. New York legislators want to clean it up.
New York is seen as a model - but it also shows the challenges of green public-private partnerships
And that’s still vastly short of what’s needed.
Farms in New York have used a form of legal arbitrage to shield their manure management practices from scrutiny.
DSA organized against a fracked-gas plant in Astoria. Now Schumer is getting involved.
Elected with real estate industry support, soon-to-be Mayor Adams faces a critical choice on New York’s landmark buildings emissions law.
A top energy executive, whose firm is designing pro-gas talking points, has a seat at the table charting the state’s path to decarbonization.
Only big, strong, mean grassroots campaigns can turn this around
Founded by a major Cuomo donor, Renaissance Technologies is set to become a stakeholder in upstate mining operation that touched off backlash against Bitcoin.
Chemical industry lobbyists are aggressively fighting a bill that would ban the use of toxic flame retardants—including by placing stories in local news outlets with quotes from a tenant organizer who says she didn’t speak to them.
New York’s profit-driven power system leads to higher costs, more blackouts, and more fossil fuels, activists say.
Governor Cuomo just approved the largest budget in New York history — and it has virtually no new funding to help meet the goals in New York’s landmark climate law.
Can New York meet its emissions goals if it green-lights more fossil fuel infrastructure? A proposal to rebuild a fracked-gas plant will set the precedent.
A Finger Lakes power plant plans to ramp up energy-intensive Bitcoin mining. If the state allows it to proceed, environmentalists warn dozens of fossil-fueled plants could follow.
The major provisions of New York’s 2021 budget.