Energy & Environment

A D train entering the Smith St. station in Brooklyn with the Manhattan skyline in the background.

Commentary

New York City’s transit decay impedes achieving climate goals

To reduce emissions, mass transit must attract more riders through better service.

By ANDY DARRELL

Opinion

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Energy & Environment

How to get to ‘50 by 30’

Is New York on pace to generate half its electricity from renewables by 2030?

By KAY DERVISHI

Policy

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A bunch of solar panels collaged together

Energy & Environment

Can New York meet its own energy initiatives?

We speak with state leaders to assess the governor’s ambitious effort to shift to renewables.

By KAY DERVISHI

Policy

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo addresses the media after a tugboat rammed a fuel terminal pier near Bayonne, N.J., causing an oil spill into the Upper Bay of New York Harbor in 2016.

Energy & Environment

Cuomo banned fracking. But is he still vulnerable on natural gas pipelines?

Cynthia Nixon tries to ride the environmentalist tide that propelled Zephyr Teachout in 2014.

By JUSTIN SONDEL

Policy

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Policy

The Long Island outlook

The biggest projects and policy matters in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

By KAY DERVISHI, MAX PARROTT

Policy

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Health Care

Missing water tank reports at many NYC hospitals

Rust, muck and pigeons cited at facilities that house the city’s most vulnerable.

By FRANK G. RUNYEON

Policy

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Black bags of trash on sidewalk in New York City street waiting for service trash truck.

Energy & Environment

The latest investigation of NYC’s private sanitation industry

ProPublica and Voice for America report on the bad behavior and political connections of Sanitation Salvage.

By JEFF COLTIN

Policy

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New York State

2018 Session Countdown

Election season is heating up across the state, but there's still work to be done in Albany.

By CITY & STATE

News & Politics

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New York City

Lawmakers criticize city for water tank neglect

Levine, Torres list fixes for “broken” drinking water oversight.

By FRANK G. RUNYEON

News & Politics

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A humpback whale pops up in the Hudson River as seen from New York City with New Jersey in the background.

Opinion

Seismic testing threatens New York waters

Even before offshore oil and gas drilling occurs, the damage begins.

By ISABELLA GUKEISEN, SABRINA XIE

Opinion

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