Category: Environment and Energy

July 17, 2014 By Neal Tepel New York, NY  – Over 1.5 million acres off the Atlantic coast can now be utilized for offshore wind development according to a new

July 9, 2014 By Assemblymember Patricia A. Fahy Senator Grisanti and I have introduced legislation to require appropriate financial insurance for crude oil facilities. This legislation (A.9926) would ensure that

April 18, 2014 By Stephanie West New York, NY – New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has announced the formation of a Sandy Oversight Unit which will draw upon

March 24, 2014 By Steven Wishnia The Internet has been hyped as a utopian panacea for everything from democracy to music, but the economic changes it has wrought—coupled with those

March 18, 2014 By Neal Tepel The tragic gas explosion in East Harlem on Wednesday March 13th should not have happened in the first place. Weakened, century-old pipes should have

March 14, 2014 By Stephanie West New York, NY — The campaign titled 'Real Affordability for All' has defined real affordability as housing that low-income families earning less than $40,000

March 14, 2014 By Labor Secretary Perez Washington, DC – “The nation’s economic recovery continued in February, with the creation of 175,000 new jobs with 162,000 of them in the

March 5, 2014 By Stephanie West  New York, NY — Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced the city has reached an agreement with Two Trees Management on the Domino Sugar

January 22, 2014 By Neal Tepel San Francisco, California – Beginning in the late 1990s San Francisco enacted nearly a dozen laws to raise pay, improve benefits, expand health care

September 5, 2013 By Neal Tepel Jackson, Mich. – The Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) has negotiated a new five-year labor agreement with Consumers Energy under which the union