If you didn’t know better, you might think you were looking at a patch of tall grass.

But it might actually be a wetland — an increasingly rare ecosystem and buffer against flooding.

For the dozens of solar developers rushing to qualify for federal subsidies that President Donald Trump is phasing out next year, finding out the answer could make the difference between building a project or not.

Governor Kathy Hochul is pushing to narrow a bill to protect domestic violence survivors from being held financially responsible for debt incurred as a result of their abuse, according to the bill’s Assembly sponsor.

The bill would make it easier for survivors to get out of “coerced debt,” defined as nonconsensual credit-related transactions that occur in the context of a violent relationship — for example, an abuser forcing someone to sign credit card applications or take out loans under the threat of violence.

It’s extremely common for survivors of intimate partner violence to face this kind of economic abuse, advocates say, and it can have long-term financial consequences that may lead them to stay in an abusive relationship.

Two years ago, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill to require limited liability companies in New York to share more information about their true owners. It’s set to take effect in two weeks, on January 1.

But actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration this spring threaten to dramatically narrow the bill’s scope. So New York lawmakers passed a new bill this year, making what they describe as minor alterations to the bill to protect it from Trump’s new rules. They didn’t expect problems getting Hochul’s signature, since she’d signed and celebrated the original bill.

Yet the entire initiative is now in peril, according to Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, a Brooklyn Democrat and the lead Assembly sponsor of both bills.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has a message for the world’s biggest investment firm: Clean up your act, or lose our money.

Just before Thanksgiving, the outgoing comptroller — and now congressional candidate — published a letter to the trustees of the city’s largest pension funds, recommending that they rebid $42 billion worth of investments entrusted to BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager. The firm, which manages roughly one-fifth of the city’s $300 billion pension systems, has failed to live up to the funds’ net-zero climate standards, Lander said.