Community choice aggregation means cheaper electricity and more green power
Climate change
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Data shows decrease in Rochester emissions
Rochester is one of two areas nationwide where carbon dioxide emissions from cars decreased over the last few decades. That’s according to A New York Times report that drew on data from Boston University and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The researchers looked at carbon dioxide emissions from traffic in 100 metro areas from 1990 […]
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Why the UN Climate Action Summit matters
The media and climate activists must “name and shame” laggards, says the UN special envoy
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Climate strikes come to Rochester
The seriousness of climate change, now more accurately called global climate disruption, increases by the day. And that’s the case whether you look at it as an environmental and ecological issue, a political issue, a social justice concern, or an economic factor. The increasing urgency for governments, institutions, and individuals to act on climate change […]
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Food waste on city’s menu
Each year, Americans put billions of pounds of uneaten food and scraps in the trash. And they do so at hefty costs, not just to the local governments that have to haul residents’ garbage to landfills, but also in terms of the climate-disrupting greenhouse gases that food waste generates. To counter those problems, cities across […]
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Federal watchdog agency to review Plan 2014
The federal government’s congressional watchdog agency is taking a look at a controversial plan that regulates outflows from Lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence Seaway. The General Accounting Office is reviewing Plan 2014, the regulatory plan that went into effect a few years ago. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand called for the review earlier […]
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Geneva first in region to launch energy program
The Town of Geneva will be the first community in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region to go live with a program that will switch households and small businesses over to a fully renewable electricity supply, unless those customers say that don’t want it. The change will happen on July 1. Geneva was able to secure the […]
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Youth ask county for climate plan
In light of federal inaction on climate change, a group of Rochester-area young people is asking the County Legislature make Monroe County carbon neutral by 2050. The Rochester Youth Climate Leaders, an interscholastic group of middle and high school students, made their request during the Legislature’s May 14 meeting. The group wants the Legislature to […]
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Report links air quality, climate, and fossil fuels
As human-influenced climate change makes the world warmer, hot days are impairing the air quality in urban areas across the United States – including in Monroe County. That’s the thrust of the American Lung Association’s recently released 2019 State of the Air report. The annual report, marking its 20th year, grades the nation’s metro areas […]
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Inglis makes conservative case for climate action
Former Republican Representative Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who will speak in Rochester on April 17, advocates for a carbon fee paired with cuts to other taxes or a household dividend. He says it’s a free enterprise solution to climate change that won’t grow government.
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More suburbs partner on renewable energy
The towns of Irondequoit, Brighton, and Pittsford, as well as the Village of Pittsford, will likely join the growing ranks of New York communities using community choice aggregation to bring clean, renewable energy to their residents and small businesses en masse. Under a CCA program, local governments contract with energy suppliers on behalf of their […]
