Climate Change

Push to Clean Up Air Around ‘Last-Mile’ Warehouses Gets in Gear

April 19, 2022, 9:15 p.m.April 20, 2022, 1:50 p.m.

A bill introduced Monday by Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes (D-Brooklyn) is looking to limit pollution from truck and van exhaust associated with local deliveries from online retailers like Amazon.

Utilities

State Approves Massive Electricity Transmission Lines to Power Climate Goals

April 14, 2022, 7:46 p.m.April 16, 2022, 10:49 a.m.

One line will bring down dam-generated electricity from Quebec, and another will feed the city with solar, wind and hydropower-created juice from Upstate. Without them, state and city climate targets were merely a pipe dream.

Climate Change

Oft Overlooked on Brooklyn-Queens Border, The Hole Shows Risks of Ignoring Environment

April 4, 2022, 7:39 p.m.April 11, 2022, 2:56 p.m.

A low-lying neighborhood where most residents aren’t connected to the city’s sewer system is struggling to transform itself. But some experts question whether investments to keep people living in a fundamentally flood-prone area are wise.

Housing

A Queens Coastal Community, Vulnerable to Climate Change, Fights a Plan for ‘High Rise Rentals’

March 28, 2022, 7:18 p.m.March 29, 2022, 5:35 p.m.

The city housing agency is looking to rezone sections of The Rockaways for its Resilient Edgemere Community Plan. But locals decry the prospect of bigger buildings, and renters.

Environment

Dark Days for Solar Energy Customers Hoping for Con Ed Discounts

March 17, 2022, 6:37 p.m.March 18, 2022, 1:30 p.m.

Community solar subscribers are supposed to earn credits on their monthly electric bills from the energy generated from sun-powered projects, but for months, those credits haven’t been appearing.

Labor

NYC Looks to Environmentally Friendly Jobs in a Cloudy Economic Climate

March 9, 2022, 7:20 p.m.March 10, 2022, 10:32 a.m.

Creating more employment opportunities that also tackle climate change could be the way to a cleaner and more financially sound future for the city and many of its least privileged residents.

Environment

Oven Pilot Gives NYCHA Residents Induction Stoves for Air-Quality Project

Feb. 14, 2022, 6:46 p.m.May 2, 2023, 12:35 p.m.

Twenty Bronx tenants will participate in a hot environmental experiment for the next six months.

Climate Change

Green Activists Urge State to Block Greenpoint Gas Plant Facility Upgrade

Jan. 27, 2022, 9:04 p.m.Jan. 27, 2022, 9:06 p.m.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to make a decision next month on whether to allow National Grid to build more fossil-fuel infrastructure in Brooklyn. Opponents say New York’s greenhouse gas reduction law should close the case.

Housing

Bronx Fire Highlights How Energy-Efficiency Push Could Save Lives Beyond Climate Change

Jan. 19, 2022, 7:59 p.m.Jan. 19, 2022, 10:08 p.m.

Newly mandated improvements to building energy efficiency in New York aren’t just ways to mitigate climate change and get off of fossil fuels, but could lead to immediate quality of life benefits for people living in affordable housing.

Environment

Four Finalists Chosen for Climate-Change Hub on Governors Island

Dec. 22, 2021, 10:39 a.m.Dec. 22, 2021, 10:43 a.m.

Local universities CUNY, the New School and Stony Brook are among four academic-led teams that have been selected to get a chance to turn 33 acres of the harbor island into a center to tackle environmental challenges ahead.

Climate Change

Push to Clean Up Air Around ‘Last-Mile’ Warehouses Gets in Gear

State Approves Massive Electricity Transmission Lines to Power Climate Goals

Oft Overlooked on Brooklyn-Queens Border, The Hole Shows Risks of Ignoring Environment

A Queens Coastal Community, Vulnerable to Climate Change, Fights a Plan for ‘High Rise Rentals’

Dark Days for Solar Energy Customers Hoping for Con Ed Discounts

NYC Looks to Environmentally Friendly Jobs in a Cloudy Economic Climate

Oven Pilot Gives NYCHA Residents Induction Stoves for Air-Quality Project

Green Activists Urge State to Block Greenpoint Gas Plant Facility Upgrade

Bronx Fire Highlights How Energy-Efficiency Push Could Save Lives Beyond Climate Change

Four Finalists Chosen for Climate-Change Hub on Governors Island

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