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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
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Heat Wave Could Preview What’s in Store for NYC as Climate Changes

By Jarrett Murphy | July 19, 2019

Data from 2013 indicates that some New Yorkers are more vulnerable to the heath risks of heat that others. People aged 65 or older made up a third of the 26 heat-related deaths that year.

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Opinion: Put Food on the Green New Deal Menu

By Maggie Dickinson, Nicholas Freudenberg and Rositsa Ilieva | July 19, 2019

‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
A floating home

Call to Shift NYC Development Away from Areas at Highest Climate Risk

By Jarrett Murphy | July 18, 2019

The New York Building Congress says there must be comprehensive, regional planning to meet the increased risk of flooding—and imaginative thinking about how to live amid higher waters.

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Map of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project

East Side Resiliency Plan Faces Key Hearing

By Jose Cardoso | July 16, 2019

Two community boards have approved the plan, but with conditions, and some neighbors are still stunned the city dropped a plan developed in cooperation with local stakeholders.

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
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Seven Years After Sandy, Slow Moves Toward Resiliency in High-Risk Nabes

By Jose Cardoso | July 1, 2019

There has been some progress toward making New York City as a whole—and the Resilient Neighborhoods in particular—safer. But much remains undone.

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
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Activists Still Hoping to Derail Plan to Develop on Staten Island Wetland

By Avery Miles | June 24, 2019

A year and a half after it won City Council approval, a Staten Island development project is stalled thanks to an unsuspecting turtle.

Agenda 2019
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Max & Murphy: State’s New Climate Law is Huge Move, And a Compromise

By Jarrett Murphy | June 20, 2019

New York State legislators on Tuesday passed one of the most ambitious pieces of environmental legislation seen in the United States: a bill that sets the Empire State on a path to net zero greenhouse-gas emissions.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
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Opinion: New York’s Climate Policy Needs to Lift All Boats

By Latrice Walker | June 17, 2019

‘Climate change impacts all of us, but not equally. New York needs comprehensive climate legislation that takes into account racial and economic justice.’

City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York

Another Setback for Plans for a New Pipeline in NY’s Harbor

By Jarrett Murphy | June 6, 2019

Three weeks after New York State rejected a bid to build a natural gas pipeline through its waters, the state of New Jersey did the same on Wednesday.

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Max & Murphy: Mayor’s Climate Czar Takes Questions on De Blasio’s Green New Deal

By Jarrett Murphy | May 23, 2019

The mayor’s chief climate czar, Daniel Zarrilli, discussed some of the points of concern that have emerged about the mayor’s plan—and some of the elements that have received little attention.

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