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Last Election Day, New Yorkers voted to let the state issue up to $4.2 billion in new bonds to support climate mitigation and environmental justice initiatives. Officially known as the […]

Did you know that trees can be designated as city landmarks? Only two have ever received landmark status, and of the two, only one is still in existence: Bed-Stuy’s Magnolia […]

A 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar energy project across 40 New York City Housing Authority rooftops was announced as the national winner of a U.S. Department of Energy program to make […]

Every year, thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles about climate and energy are published, and of those thousands, there are those which capture the attention of journalists and bloggers, and get […]

The United Nations held its annual Climate Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt over the past few weeks, and while it wasn’t easy, in the end 200 countries signed on to […]

Should New York issue $4.2 billion in new bonds to pay for projects related to greenhouse gas emissions, flood risk, clean water, land conservation, and other climate-related matters? That is […]

This year we’ve once again seen record-breaking temperatures, droughts, destructive storms and climate-related fatalities across the U.S. Increasingly, the belief that human industrial activity is driving extreme weather events is […]

Last year, President Biden officially recognized the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, celebrating the cultures and contributions of Native Americans in the US. Formerly known as Columbus […]

It’s been a relatively quiet hurricane season in the Atlantic so far this year, but Mother Nature walloped Puerto Rico with a Category 1 hurricane that caused island-wide blackouts on […]

At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency did not have the authority to mandate emissions from power plants in West Virginia […]