NYC’s Giant Water Tunnel Begins Work On Final Shafts, Following 50 Years Of Construction
arrow The site of Shaft 17B-1 in Long Island City, Queens, April 8th, 2021 Nathan Kensinger for Gothamist
Out on the industrial back streets of Queens sit two dusty, gravel-covered lots. Hemmed in by auto-body shops, graffiti-covered walls and barbed wire fences, one houses an abandoned trailer and a collection of car doors, while the other is home to three feral cats: Rosie, Blackie and Angel.
Here is where the final phase of a 50-year long journey to create a backup for the city’s water supply will soon break ground, with workers blasting out two enormous shafts, burrowing down more than 600 feet.
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April 22, 2021
As Pennsylvania joins the global recognition of Earth Day, Governor Tom Wolf today issued a statement praising President Joe Biden’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
The president’s plan, which aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas pollution by 50-52 percent from 2005 levels in 2030, aligns with the governor’s priorities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2025 and by 80 percent by 2050 through his administration’s Climate Action Plan and the steps being taken to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
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File photo: June 20, 2019: Chris Smith makes his way through floodwaters in Westville after severe storms swept across southern New Jersey.
New Jersey released its first major statement Thursday on how the state should respond to climate change, recommending seismic and sobering changes that include moving population away from flood-prone areas; educating the public about the massive task ahead; redirecting state investment toward resiliency measures, and forging an “all-hands-on-deck” strategy within government.
The long-awaited State of New Jersey Climate Change Resiliency Strategy described 125 actions across six policy areas that it said should be implemented by public and private sectors to help adapt to the higher temperatures, bigger storms, heavier rains and rising seas already affecting the Garden State and set to worsen in coming decades.