Albany, NY More than 80 New York advocacy and grassroots groups joined more than 500 national organizations in releasing a letter to Congress yesterday calling for a truly clean, renewable energy standard as part of the evolving infrastructure package.
To meet its new climate goals, the Biden administration is expected to back a national Clean Energy Standard (CES), which some advocates argue can pass under existing budget reconciliation rules.
But the groups releasing the letter including Food & Water Watch, New York Communities for Change, Riverkeeper, the Long Island Progressive Coalition, New York Youth Climate Leaders, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and 350Brooklyn are critical of current CES plans that qualify fracked gas, carbon capture and storage, factory farm biogas and offsets schemes as forms of clean energy. They point out that these technologies either do not effectively reduce emissions, or create pollution burdens in environmental justice communities
Grenzdebatte Südosteuropa - Brandbeschleuniger am Balkan
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Debatte über neue Grenzziehungen: Gefährliches Pulverfass auf dem Balkan
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Letter: Danskammer proposal not in keeping with climate plans
to the editor
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FILE. Letter writer says, Once we realize the simple idea that the only way to stop emitting greenhouse gases is to stop producing greenhouse gases, proposals such as the Danskammer power plant no longer make sense. (Getty Images)Stocktrek
Rep. Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, is proud of giving the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill a “climate spin” (“Tonko gives Biden plan a climate spin, March 31). His head must be spinning, too, as his career progresses from confronting outright climate deniers when he first took office in 2008 to working with an administration as serious about climate change as he has been.
Online shopping growth, COVID, sparks jump in store returns
Returns have their own costs
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ALBANY The time-honored post-Christmas rush of gift returns is growing larger, but you might not know it by visiting your favorite mall or department store.
You would see it, though, if you stopped by Corner Gateway, a family-run printing/shipping business in Slingerlands. Our whole storage room was filled to the brim, Project Manager Greg Eberle said of the volume of packages they had leading up to Christmas. And after the holidays, they were still getting lots of boxes that people dropped off in order to return unwanted gifts or other items that had come via the postal service, Amazon delivery, UPS or other shippers.