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Macy’s Outlines Ambitious Plan for Herald Square Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of Here’s what you need to know: Macy’s wants to build an office tower atop its Herald Square location.Credit...FXCollaborative Macy’s is proposing the construction of a commercial office tower on top of its flagship Herald Square store in New York as part of a broader redevelopment plan that would aim to improve the surrounding area and its subway stations. The retailer said in a statement on Monday that it would commit $235 million to help improve the Herald...

A new rule in California could help curb emissions at e-commerce warehouses. The Los Angeles area has the nation’s largest concentration of warehouses, contributing to some of the worst air pollution in the country.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times May 10, 2021 The South Coast Air Quality Management District in Southern California on Friday adopted a rule that would force about 3,000 of the largest warehouses in the area to slash emissions from the trucks that serve the site or take other measures to improve air quality, The New York Times’s Hiroko Tabuchi reports. Southern Ca...

Congress and the Biden administration are taking action aimed at sharply restricting a pair of potent greenhouse gases.

NFTs are shaking up the art world. They may be warming the planet, too 29 Apr, 2021 11:47 PM 8 minutes to read An NFT is a piece of artwork stamped with a unique string of code, but the coding process comes with enormous greenhouse-gas emissions. Photo / 123RF An NFT is a piece of artwork stamped with a unique string of code, but the coding process comes with enormous greenhouse-gas emissions. Photo / 123RF New York Times By: Hiroko Tabuchi When Chris Precht, an Austrian architect and artist, first learned about nonfungible tokens, the digital collectibles taking the art world by storm, he wa...

Print This is the April 29, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Something remarkable happened over the weekend: California hit nearly 95% renewable energy. I’ll say it again: 95% renewables. For all the time we spend talking about how to reach 100% clean power, it sometimes seems like a faraway proposition, whether the timeframe is California’s 2045 target or President Biden’s more aggressive 2035 goal. But on Saturday just before 2:30 p.m., one of the worl...