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Croton Plant Still Stirs Anger, Questions about Water Projects

The federally mandated plant in the Bronx is finally operating, but neighbors still wonder why a site that was supposed to save money ended up costing $2 billion more than…

Climate and Environment Investigations

Climate Change and Cloudy Water Challenge City’s Water System

You might not know what “turbidity” is but it’s a long-standing issue in the city’s Catskills watershed—one that climate change is likely to exacerbate.

Investigations

Steps to Protect NYC Water Boost Eagles and Trout

Historically known as black bear, bobcat and beaver country, the Catskills have become popular for trout fishing and bald eagle spotting, due in part because of how we get our…

Investigations

Your Role in Fixing a Leak in the World’s Longest Tunnel

Cracks in the 85-mile-long Delaware Aqueduct are leaking up to 35 million gallons a day and threaten the largest source of New York City drinking water. A huge repair job…

Investigations

Watershed Residents Offered Buyout of Flood-Damaged Homes

FEMA deals didn’t work for many upstate residents affected by 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene. So New York’s DEP is offering to buy some homeowners out—a way to improve city-watershed relations…

Investigations

City’s Watershed Protection Plan Seeks Difficult Balance Upstate

Since 1997, New York City has spent $438 million to protect 135,149 acres of land in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, a land area greater than Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens combined. Decades-old…

Housing and Homelessness Investigations NYCHA

NYCHA Questioned on Policy of Banning Arrested Residents

From 2007 through 2014, nearly 5,000 people were “permanently excluded” from NYCHA because of an arrest—not necessarily a conviction—on or near NYCHA property.

Investigations

To Meet Waste Goals, NYC Needs to Scrap How it Thinks About Garbage

The scene at the former Fresh Kills landfill, of beautiful scenery built about decades of bad trash policy, gives reason for optimism that the city will find a way to…

Investigations

Life Near a Landfill: The Towns and People Who End Up with NYC Trash

From upstate Seneca County to the banks of the Delaware River, people who live near landfills and trash-burning energy plants are parsing Mayor de Blasio’s “zero waste” pledge—and taking action…

Investigations

How NYC Can Learn from Other Cities’ Work Toward Zero Waste

Seattle, Boulder and Ljubljana (that’s in Slovenia) have employed approaches that New York City might find instructive as it chases Mayor de Blasio’s “zero waste to landfills” goal.

Investigations

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