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Environmental groups see the expansion project as a step backward in honoring the state’s landmark 2019 climate law, which seeks to move away from fossil fuels and guarantee that 70…

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Oct 2023

New Bill Would Require NYC Landlords to Distribute Flood Evacuation Plans

The legislation introduced in the City Council last week is geared at keeping tenants in flood-prone basement apartments out of harm’s way.

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Oct 2023

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Leaks and Flooding at NYCHA Brownstones Were Preventable, Tenants Say

“They knew it was going to rain Friday,” said Cynthia Tibbs, the tenant association president at NYCHA’s West Side Urban Redevelopment (WSUR) brownstones, where ceilings in three apartments collapsed following…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness

‘Predictable Emergencies’: NYC Flash Floods Spur Renewed Calls for Basement Legalization

“I haven’t slept at all, I panic every time it pours hard rain,” one basement tenant in Brooklyn told City Limits after water began to breach her apartment early Friday…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByEmma Whitford

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment

Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?

“Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.”…

ByDanielle Renwick, Nexus Media News 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment Education Opinion

Opinion: To Keep Schools Open, NYC Needs Climate-Resilient Buildings

“After Hurricane Sandy, my school closed for a week, while whole school student bodies had to be relocated across the city. More recently, my school’s basement and entire first floor…

ByLiat Olenick 0Comments

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May 2022

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Transportation

May 24: Climate Experts to Discuss the Future of NYC’s Waterfront

Join City Limits at the 2022 Waterfront Conference, a day-long event of speeches and panels by experts in resiliency, housing, and policy to address approaches to the climate crisis that…

ByLiz Donovan 0Comments

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Mar 2022

Government Opinion

Opinion: This Budget Cycle, NYC Must Prioritize Funding for Parks

‘Let’s be clear: taking away resources from the Parks Department at a moment when the agency is still working hard to recover from another Covid-era budget cut in 2020 would…

ByAdam Ganser 0Comments

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Jan 2022

Climate and Environment Government News Politics

Gov. Hochul Sets Bold Climate Goals — But Advocates Push for Funding Commitments

Since the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act was signed into law in 2019, laying out aggressive benchmarks for NY to reduce its carbon emissions, advocates have pushed for a…

ByLiz Donovan 0Comments

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Dec 2021

Economy Housing and Homelessness News

NYC’s Waterfront Plan Maps Out Next Decade for City’s Coastlines

The nearly 300-page report is the first waterfront plan since Superstorm Sandy, and comes at the end of a year in which the city was rocked by multiple severe weather…

ByLiz Donovan 3Comments

Environmentalists Urge Gov. Hochul to Stop Expansion of Multi-State Fracked Gas Pipeline

New Bill Would Require NYC Landlords to Distribute Flood Evacuation Plans

Leaks and Flooding at NYCHA Brownstones Were Preventable, Tenants Say

‘Predictable Emergencies’: NYC Flash Floods Spur Renewed Calls for Basement Legalization

Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?

Opinion: To Keep Schools Open, NYC Needs Climate-Resilient Buildings

May 24: Climate Experts to Discuss the Future of NYC’s Waterfront

Opinion: This Budget Cycle, NYC Must Prioritize Funding for Parks

Gov. Hochul Sets Bold Climate Goals — But Advocates Push for Funding Commitments

NYC’s Waterfront Plan Maps Out Next Decade for City’s Coastlines

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