Environmental groups are peeved over a report that the state Department of Environmental Conservation shared a draft of its hydrofracking review with the gas industry. The Times Union reported Wednesday on the exchange of emails between the state agency and some pro-drilling people. The Environmental Working Group got the emails…. Read More →
Lightbulb: 85 developers and companies have offered 130 ideas on how to upgrade the state’s energy highway, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today. The ideas would generate 25,000 megawatts of new power. Cuomo issued the RFI (Requests For Information) on April 11, asking for proposals to support an energy highway in… Read More →
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today lowered its bond rating again for Rockland County to one-level above junk-bond status after the state Legislature last week failed to give the struggling county the ability to borrow to pay off growing debt. The state Senate didn’t pass a bill that would have… Read More →
It will be a short, but lucrative visit to Buffalo today for Mitt Romney, Gannett’s WGRZ reports. Romney is going to be in town for about two hours and expects to raise $1 million for his presidential campaign. WGRZ said it will cost $2,500 to attend the reception for Republican… Read More →
The Attorney General’s Office announced a lawsuit today against Kelli Conlin, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, for allegedly using more than $250,000 in charitable funds for herself. Conlin used about $75,000 in NARAL Foundation money for expensive shopping trips to Barney’s, Berdorf Goodman and Armani, the lawsuit… Read More →
There’s been no shortage of reaction in Albany to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to effectively hold up the federal Affordable Care Act. Only one group, as far as I can tell, bought a cake. A group of supporters from various groups gathered outside of the state Capitol this… Read More →
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks knocked the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act and her Democratic foe, Rep. Louise Slaughter. “The Supreme Court’s decision today made clear that the Obamacare Individual Mandate is a colossal new tax to be levied on the American people, one which will cost… Read More →
The New York State Public Service Commission said today that it has completed its review of utilities’ response to last year’s tropical storms Lee and Irene. The verdict: The companies could have done better. And the PSC is offering a compact 100 recommendations on how the power companies and telephone… Read More →
The state Department of Environmental Conservation today adopted regulations to require new or expanding power plants to evaluate the impacts on so-called environmental justice communities, which are mainly inner cities. DEC Commissioner Joe Martens said the regulations are the first in the country to require “an environmental justice analysis” in… Read More →
Here’s the full remarks by President Obama today at the White House on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. 12:15 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Earlier today, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act—the name of the health care reform we… Read More →