Why Governor Cuomo's Casino Plans Are a Better Bet for the Environment
A Fifteen-Year Chronology of the Casino Controversy in New York State Last year New York State saw some huge environmental wins: the ivory trade crackdown ,...
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A New York State of Mind on Food and Farms
One in six Americans struggles with hunger. More than one-third of Americans are obese. And our current agriculture is a major contributor to climate change...
Major US Cities Not "Chickening" Out on Good School Food
Today, six of the largest cities in the United States — New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami-Dade, Dallas and Orlando — announced they will seek to buy...
New Jersey Legislation to Protect the Palisades Advances in Trenton
The battle to protect the Palisades officially moved to the New Jersey capital last week when the State’s Senate Environment and Energy Committee heard...
How LG Electronics is Mis-LEEDing the Public in the Fight to Save the Palisades Park
Criticism continues to mount against LG Electronics’ plan to build a 143-foot headquarters on top of the Hudson River Palisades in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey...
Jonathan Schell, Climate Change, and the (Still Pending) Fate of the Earth
It would be overblown to say that the writer Jonathan Schell changed my life. But it is not a stretch to say that Schell, who died last week at the age of 70,...