The agency’s decision—which backtracked on a proposal to store some contaminated material in Red Hook—clears the way for a $506 million cleanup to begin.
There’s no question that the Blueway Plan will provide that direct access to the water. What can’t be known yet is whether it will also provide protection from it.
Residents and advocates were disappointed the city didn’t just shut down the short, troublesome highway. Now they’re backing a city plan to at least improve it.
As the city targets wider food-waste composting, an earlier yard-waste collection program has two city departments squaring off against some East New York residents.
East Brooklyn Congregations and allies typically work behind the scenes. But they’ve made headlines in 2013 by forcing candidates to provide detailed housing, school and policing proposals.
Fishers in Long Island Sound are seeing species that normally swim far to the south. Dramatically warmer waters are challenging both the fishing industry and the regulatory system that governs…
New York is thinking about diverting garbage from out-of-state landfills and using it to generate electricity locally. The plan pits concerns about city spending and carbon emissions against fears of…
To both reach PlaNYC’s ambitious goals–and to exceed them in those in areas where PlaNYC fell short –community-based organizations must be essential partners.
Even in poor neighborhoods not home to power plants, waste transfer stations or the other egregious environmental offenders, physical conditions sustain not just ill health, but poverty as well.
What role do neighborhood groups play in the global effort to save the environment? What does sustainable living offer to low-income New Yorkers? We asked the experts.