Environment

Groups commend Stringer’s climate risk study, pledge to ramp up pressure

Groups commend Stringer’s climate risk study, pledge to ramp up pressure

Groups commend Stringer’s climate risk study, pledge to ramp up pressure After years of public pressure, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer announces pension climate risk study New York, NY — 350.org and fossil fuel divestment advocates are commending Comptroller Scott Stringer’s […]

by · February 9, 2017 · Bulletin Board, Environment
Millennials sit-in at Governor’s office: “Trump’s a climate emergency, Cuomo show some urgency”

Millennials sit-in at Governor’s office: “Trump’s a climate emergency, Cuomo show some urgency”

Millennials sit-in at Governor’s office: “Trump’s a climate emergency, Cuomo show some urgency” Dozens of young New Yorkers risk arrest, urging the Governor to reject Trump’s climate denial Albany, NY – Today, 22 young New Yorkers kicked off 2017 with […]

New Yorkers rally at NYC pension meeting calling for full fossil fuel divestment

New Yorkers rally at NYC pension meeting calling for full fossil fuel divestment

New Yorkers rally at NYC pension meeting calling for full fossil fuel divestment As global commitments surpass $5 trillion, New Yorkers call out pensions for lagging, urge full divestment from fossil fuels and reinvestment in communities New York, NY — […]

NYC Department of Sanitation Announces Autumn Leaf Collection Schedule

NYC Department of Sanitation Announces Autumn Leaf Collection Schedule

by · November 4, 2016 · Bulletin Board, Environment
Public Conversation on Sustainability at Hostos College – October 26th

Public Conversation on Sustainability at Hostos College – October 26th

by · October 9, 2016 · Bulletin Board, Environment

Profile America: Solar Roller 

On this date in 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corporation demonstrated the world’s first solar-powered car.

Bronx Congressman Crowley Defends AG Schneiderman Against GOP House Subpoena 

Today’s move shows just how far House Republicans’ obsession with denying climate change can go.

Environmental Extremism and the Assault on Free Speech

Environmental Extremism and the Assault on Free Speech

Environmental Extremism and the Assault on Free Speech by Frank V. Vernuccio An unprecedented legal attack, in utter violation of the First Amendment, has been launched against a think tank. According to Claude Walker, the attorney general of the U.S. […]

by · May 22, 2016 · Environment
Op-Ed: Indian Point is the Existing Bridge to a Clean Energy Future

Op-Ed: Indian Point is the Existing Bridge to a Clean Energy Future

Indian Point is the Existing Bridge to a Clean Energy Future The Indian Point nuclear power plant, located in Westchester, provides 25 percent of the power used in New York City and Westchester every day. Not only does Indian Point […]

Yearly Cost of U.S. Premature Births Linked to Air Pollution

Yearly Cost of U.S. Premature Births Linked to Air Pollution

  NEW YORK, March 29, 2016  — The annual economic cost of the nearly 16,000 premature births linked to air pollution in the United States has reached $4.33 billion, according to a report by scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center. The […]

by · March 29, 2016 · Environment, Science, Women
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UPDATE: Oil Spill in the Bronx River Getting Resolved

  UPDATE: Oil Spill in the Bronx River Getting Resolved   After the oil spill in Yonkers, Bronx River Alliance reported that the recent heating oil spill in Bronx River is now being resolved, thanks to all the whole scale […]

by · March 23, 2016 · Environment, Local News, News
WYSK: George Pataki Is Unhappy

WYSK: George Pataki Is Unhappy

Ex-Governor George Pataki has joined the voices of those elected officials who are demanding for the name of Donald Trump to be removed from the parkland that Mr. Trump donated to the State of New York.

PROFILE AMERICA: Solar Power

The first house in America with solar powered heating and radiation cooling opened this week in 1955 in Tucson, Arizona.

by · January 18, 2016 · Environment, Profile America
SIXTEEN HOTELS TO JOIN NYC’S FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

SIXTEEN HOTELS TO JOIN NYC’S FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

16 HOTELS COMMIT TO 30 PERCENT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS IN NEXT 10 YEARS   Another major expansion of NYC carbon challenge adds hotel sector to multifamily buildings, universities, hospitals, and commercial offices – part of de Blasio Administration’s OneNYC and […]

by · January 15, 2016 · Environment, Government
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Entergy Earns EEI Emergency Assistance and Recovery Awards

Entergy Earns EEI Emergency Assistance and Recovery Awards; Continues 18-year Record NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6, 2016  — Entergy Corp. yesterday received the Edison Electric Institute’s Emergency Assistance and Recovery Awards to recognize the company’s outstanding power restoration efforts on behalf […]

by · January 7, 2016 · Business, Energy, Environment, News