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New York’s Angry Orchard gifts apple tree saplings in annual Arbor Day tradition

Posted on April 15, 2021

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Brooklyn

City plans to chop trees for Ft. Greene Park redesign, declines to say how many

Posted on April 15, 2021

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Two New York City parks to become free of pesticides with help from national yogurt brand

Posted on April 14, 2021

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Brooklyn

Cleanup time: NYPD, Shea head up big blitz in Brooklyn and beyond to wipe out graffiti

Posted on April 10, 2021

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New York

Environmentalists march in Union Square to prevent climate change

Posted on April 8, 2021

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Politics

Exclusive: Council Member Justin Brannan joins the fight to reveal redacted “ESCR Value Engineering Study”

Posted on April 4, 2021

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Op-Ed | Parks are critical infrastructure — NYC’s next mayor needs to treat them that way

Posted on March 31, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hosts meeting on infrastructure with members of Congress at the White House in Washington

Biden kicks off effort to reshape U.S. economy with infrastructure package

Posted on March 31, 2021

A sanitation truck cleans up 6th Ave after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York

Politics

Spring cleaning: NYC gives funding boost to Sanitation Department to help NYC sparkle again

Posted on March 30, 2021

New York goes green

NYC pumping $6 billion in pension funds toward climate change investments

Posted on March 23, 2021

NYC Planning Commission approves adoption of Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency

Posted on March 17, 2021

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News

Analysis: Why Biden’s securities regulator faces climate crackdown challenges

Posted on March 17, 2021

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Politics

These New York City lawmakers had the best environmental records in 2020

Posted on March 12, 2021

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Brooklyn

Radioactive rave: COVIDiot party at Queens Superfund site shut down by sheriff

Posted on March 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Senate holds confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to be Supreme Court Justice

Courts

Barrett authors first U.S. Supreme Court ruling, a loss for environmentalists

Posted on March 4, 2021

Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police search for survivors after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam, in Chormi

World

India glacier avalanche leaves 18 dead, more than 200 missing

Posted on February 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and chief engineer Elon Musk attends a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center

Elon Musk puts up $100 million for global carbon reduction competition

Posted on February 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s Super Tuesday night rally in West Palm Beach

Politics

U.N. chief names Michael Bloomberg climate envoy to rally action

Posted on February 5, 2021

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Politics

Science is Back, now it’s time for executive powers to declare climate emergency says Schumer

Posted on January 31, 2021

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Vaccinations postponed, Open Restaurants cancelled as city braces for major snowstorm

Posted on January 31, 2021

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Brooklyn

Barge ship meant to clean up Gowanus Canal sinks off Brooklyn shore

Posted on January 27, 2021

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De Blasio’s $1 million flood plan shelved and hidden from high-risk East Harlem

Posted on January 26, 2021

A depot used to store pipes for Transcanada Corp’s planned Keystone XL oil pipeline is seen in Gascoyne

Politics

Biden may cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit as soon as his first day in office: source

Posted on January 18, 2021

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Cuomo announces $26B public-private plan to kickstart 100 green energy projects

Posted on January 13, 2021

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Environmental suicide: Greta Thunberg in conversation with the Dalai Lama

Posted on January 13, 2021

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Downtown Express

Lucerne Hotel residents allowed to remain on Upper West Side for now, court rules

Posted on January 5, 2021

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It’s mulching time at NYC Parks as New Yorkers toss their Christmas trees to the curb

Posted on December 30, 2020

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Politics

Schumer joins city pols to call for a wind turbine plant in Brooklyn

Posted on December 28, 2020

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Queens

NYC parks and DSNY give six month extension for Big Reuse compost site at Queensbridge Park

Posted on December 20, 2020

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‘Save our compost’: New Yorkers to testify at City Council oversight hearing

Posted on December 17, 2020

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn environmentalist blasts alleged ‘falsehoods’ in paperwork for Coney Island Ferry

Posted on December 16, 2020

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Queens

Urban Park Rangers rescue illegally dumped domestic ducks from Flushing’s Bowne Park pond

Posted on December 14, 2020

A worker delivers donated food at the Queensbridge Houses, a NYCHA public housing complex, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Queens, New York

Health

NYCHA violated lead paint abatement rules for five years, city investigators ruled

Posted on December 10, 2020

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New York

Cuomo again vetoes Queens lawmakers’ bill to protect Jamaica Bay

Posted on December 9, 2020

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Panel urges MTA to adopt zero emission plan to switch bus fleet to 100% electric

Posted on December 2, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers pre-Thanksgiving speech at transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware

Business

Biden plan to end U.S. fossil fuel subsidies faces big challenges

Posted on December 1, 2020

Metal monolith is discovered in Red Rock Country in Utah

Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew

Posted on November 28, 2020

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Brooklyn

What to expect during the Gowanus Canal cleanup

Posted on November 18, 2020

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Op-Ed | Green spaces are necessary for New York City’s recovery from COVID-19

Posted on November 16, 2020

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Brooklyn

Feds launch long-awaited dredging of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal

Posted on November 16, 2020

Nearly $10 million renovation gives Lower East Side residents a greener park

Posted on November 11, 2020

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City Planning Commission approves highly controversial Special Flushing Waterfront District Proposal

Posted on November 5, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Biden walks past solar panels in Plymouth

Politics

Analysis: Sustainable investing advocates hope for friendlier U.S. rules if Biden wins

Posted on November 2, 2020

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Queens

Work to revitalize Queens’ Hallets Cove waterfront set to begin this winter

Posted on October 26, 2020

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Elected officials say ‘frack that’ to gas pipeline in Brooklyn

Posted on October 19, 2020

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Brooklyn

Anti-fracking activists break into Brooklyn pipeline construction site once again

Posted on October 16, 2020

Brooklyn

Four chained demonstrators arrested in Brooklyn anti-gas pipeline protest

Posted on October 15, 2020

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City agency claims outreach ongoing to vagrant vendors at East Village junk market

Posted on October 15, 2020

More from around NYC

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Bronx leaders rally against Medicaid cuts that could leave thousands uninsured

Dayvon Morrison allegedly beat his 2-year-old son during an intoxicated fit of rage inside a Long island homeless shelter in late January, according to authorities. The boy died days later.

Queens father indicted for murdering 2-year-old son after beating him in Long Island City shelter: DA

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Pier 2 Roller Rink returns music and motion to Brooklyn, starting March 27

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle.

Ninth Circuit panel affirms injunction against Montana anti-drag law