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ConEd customers have seen their electricity bills double or even triple over the past month, and the company just reported over a billion dollars in annual income. Activists say a publicly-owned utility would deliver more affordable power.
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The law leaves key decisions to an agency with a history of dragging its feet on implementing water quality legislation.
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The $216 billion budget would ban gas in new construction, but otherwise offers few dramatic moves on climate.
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New York is building renewables - but it doesn’t have a plan to shut down the plants they’re supposed to replace.
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The state spends $1.6 billion a year subsidizing oil and gas. Lawmakers are trying to eliminate about one-fifth of that spending.
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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.
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A recent report renewed a decades-long debate over a regulatory requirement that cell towers in Adirondack Park be “substantially invisible.”
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Hochul argues the office would be redundant, because the state already protects utility consumers.
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A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against big oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
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The fight heated up at a hearing Wednesday, with debate centered on when, not if, a gas ban should go into effect.
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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.
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The moratorium expires in December. But New York hasn’t distributed a single dollar of the $70 million of federal water assistance.
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If concrete production were a country, it would be the world’s third largest carbon emitter. New York legislators want to clean it up.
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New York is seen as a model - but it also shows the challenges of green public-private partnerships
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And that’s still vastly short of what’s needed.
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Farms in New York have used a form of legal arbitrage to shield their manure management practices from scrutiny.
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DSA organized against a fracked-gas plant in Astoria. Now Schumer is getting involved.
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Elected with real estate industry support, soon-to-be Mayor Adams faces a critical choice on New York’s landmark buildings emissions law.
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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.
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Only big, strong, mean grassroots campaigns can turn this around