“As New Yorkers continue to battle the ongoing pandemic that has decimated the nation, another battle the state is facing is on climate change. Over the past decade, the state has experienced more extreme weather events, and temperatures continue to rise. Though Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken action to combat the growing crisis, critics … [Read more…]
“As policymakers have shifted focus from pandemic challenges to economic recovery, infrastructure plans are once more being actively discussed, including those relating to energy. Green energy advocates are doubling down on pressure to continue, or even increase, the use of wind, solar power, and electric cars. Left out of the discussion is any serious … [Read more…]
“Climate Action Council ClimateAct@dec.ny.gov Meeting Materials website Climate Justice Working Group Disadvantaged Communities – NYSERDA DEC Environmental Justice Areas New York State Opportunity Zone May 13, 2021 Assembly Public Hearing for Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Notification of Public Hearing – what date was it published? May 10, 2021 … [Read more…]
“NYS Tug Hill Commission webinar 1 hour and 30 minutes” Powerpoint slideshow watch the presentation on Zoom archive NYS Tug Hill 22 April 2020. * watch the archive 2020 Conference Presentations
“Government records on corporations reveal only the tip of the iceberg, if that. Unfortunately, the identity of the real owners can be obscured. So-called shell companies are created to disguise the real, “beneficial,” owners. The good news? There are many ways to research companies, who really owns them, what they do and more. These … [Read more…]
“As the costs of solar PV modules continue to reduce, and those of batteries follow a similar downward trajectory, solar-plus-storage is in growing demand among utilities and solar developers. The US is leading the trend, where these types of clean energy power stations are starting to produce electricity competitively with gas peaking plants, especially … [Read more…]
“Historically, we’d been taught that solar modules were the most precious of goods – to be held closely, to be loved. There’s that famous graph showing the price per watt falling from $100 in the 1970s, to the less than 30¢/watt these days. Now, we still care greatly about our solar modules – however … [Read more…]
“The usual suspects had predictable reactions this week after a federal trial jury convicted three upstate real-estate developers and the State University’s onetime nanotech czar, Alain Kaloyeros, on charges of bid-rigging tied to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s upstate economic-development projects. Cuomo’s harshest critics jumped on the verdict in the Buffalo Billion case as further evidence … [Read more…]
““Thus the general substantive policy of the act is a flexible one. It leaves room for a responsible exercise of discretion and does not require particular substantive results in particular problematic instances.”- Town of Henrietta (1979) But, Courts have repeatedly held that the SEQRA Lead Agency should not defer analysis of project impacts to planning … [Read more…]