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PLATTSBURGH — In the North Country Chamber of Commerce’s recently released 2024 Annual Issue Survey, avoiding new cost-increasing mandates on small businesses and employers this year topped the list of

Three leading California officials who represented the state at the United Nations climate talks late last year reflect on climate change’s growing threat to human health — and explain what the state is trying to do about it.

Unfortunately, the likely outcome is a poorly designed and implemented program.  Worse it could end up causing more problems and adding costs.  Stay tuned.

The projects prioritized in southern California's Regional Transportation Plan would increase driving, rather than work towards meeting state and regional driving reduction goals.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation released the final draft of its 10-year Solid Waste Management Plan, which has raised some concerns from Delaware County.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced three actions to support the State’s ongoing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act).

New York advances cap-and-invest program for climate change mitigation New York State

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced the release of two key documents and a series of stakeholder meetings in the ongoing development of New York’s Cap-and-Invest Program (NYCI), a program to reduce harmful climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions, improve public health, and help combat climate change while advancing environmental justice and investing in disadvantaged communities sta...

The development of Micron within the Climate Act framework will be a good test of pragmatic environmentalism.

Richard Ellenbogen recently gave an important presentation on New York State’s Energy Transition that details his concerns with the net -zero mandate of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). I think it is important that his message gets out to all New Yorkers.