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New York City’s bold proposal to close the jail on Rikers Island and replace it with green infrastructure is in jeopardy. Will this compromise the city’s ambitious climate goals?
A new transmission project has divided environmentalists and laid bare the difficult choices governments face when trying to move away from fossil fuels.
Among the chief concerns is whether the project will achieve its main goal: to shut down peaker plants, some of the dirtiest power facilities in New York.
Despite local successes for environmental activists in Seattle, New York and other cities, there's plenty of infighting among Democrats and their allies over natural gas.
New York and New England Need More Clean Energy. Is Hydropower From Canada the Best Way to Get it? Two massive projects, requiring hundreds of miles of transmission lines, have left Indigenous communities in Canada, and some U.S. activists, up in arms. October 4, 2020 Duane Hanson and Sally Kwan live deep within Maine's North Woods and fear that construction of transmission lines for a project called New England Clean Energy Connect will destroy their idyllic existence. Credit: Sally Kwan Related Share this article As the sole residents of unorganized territory T5 R7 deep within Maine’s No...