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Eastern Generation LLC, which accounts for nearly 18% of New York City’s power generation capacity, is withdrawing its application to regulators to
The proposal had come under criticism as a step backward while the state government attempts to phase out fossil fuels and switch to clean sources of energy.
The Department of Environmental Conservation denied permits for NRG’s Astoria plant and the Danskammer plant in Orange County.
North Country Public Radio While many environmental groups cheer the policy, some oppose what they call a costly and unnecessary investment in nuclear power. (Provided photo â David Sommerstein / North Country Public Radio) In 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo set one of the country’s most ambitious green energy goals when he signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. “Climate change is an undeniable scientific fact, period. To deny climate change is to deny reality,” Cuomo said at the signing ceremony. The law created a Climate Action Council to steer policy and help...
. In the late 19th century, Newburgh in the Hudson Valley represented the bleeding edge of industrial technology. Streams powering wool, gunpowder, flour and saw mills emptied into the Hudson River, where steamships carried industrial cargo. Thomas Edison in 1884 selected Newburgh to host one of the world’s first central power stations, making it the second electrified municipality in the United States after lower Manhattan. A century later, Newburgh’s economic leadership had stalled, as manufacturers relocated and the river lost shipping traffic to trucking. The city of 28,000 now has th...