NY State of State 2015: Time to Go All-In on Clean Energy, Safe Water & Local Food
Guided by the strong leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo, 2014 was a banner year for environmental victories in New York State. Perhaps most notably, just last...
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Fracking Victory, Ivory Ban, and More Solar Energy: A Year of Environmental Success in New York State
Last year ended with an environmental bang when Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a bold and courageous move that exceeded the wildest expectations of many, banned...
2014 NY State Legislative Environmental Wrap-Up
The New York legislative session typically ends with many bills being debated and passed in the last few weeks. But the usual journalistic metaphor of a “...
Extinction of the Species? Notes from the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee on Illegal Ivory
Verlyn Klinkenborg writes in a recent article in the New York Review of Books that “One way to talk about the Anthropocene – the geological age that begins...
Gas Industry Spending: Or, How to Win the Race to the Bottom
Over the last few years, television commercials extolling the virtues of hydrofracking while conveniently papering over the degradation it causes have become...
Albany Wrap-Up 2011: Slam-dunks & missed opportunities
Environmentalists always have to scrap and battle on programs and policies both big and small, and this year was no different in Albany’s Capitol Building...