Posts on: New York City

On Monday, City Limits published this Op-Ed by Solar One Senior Policy Manager Kate Selden and Cooper Square Committee’s Resiliency Coordinator and Housing Organizer Alex Lee, encouraging the expansion of […]

Wildfires in the western United States have always been frequent seasonal occurrences, and in the past couple of years, fires have also erupted in the Pacific Northwest and in eastern […]

New York, with its vast acreage of rooftops and millions of renters, is the top community solar market in the country. On Thursday, Governor Hochul and NYSERDA President and CEO […]

New York set some very ambitious climate goals, and some are proving harder to attain than others. But one area where we’re overachieving is in adopting solar energy. As outlined […]

Summers are getting hotter, breaking records around the country and around the globe every year. And while NYC has long required landlords to provide a certain amount of heat in […]

Climate Works for All, a coalition of environmental Justice, community advocacy and labor groups, has called on the City Council to ask for new climate investments. Some of the priorities […]

New York City first added a recycling law to the books way back in 1989, but recycling rates have remained stubbornly low: about 20% for households and 25% for businesses. […]

On Sunday, September 17, 2023, an estimated 75,000 protestors marched in New York City to demand immediate action to end the use of fossil fuels. As leaders from around the […]

Canada is burning, and this week so much smoke drifted down across the border that most of the eastern half of the country was affected. Levels of particulate matter rose […]

For years, the problem of what to do about Manhattan traffic has plagued New York City. Despite a seeming respite during the height of the pandemic, traffic continues to snarl […]