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County Executive Adam Bello laid out steps his administration is taking to bridge a projected
$45.8 million to $81.5 million shortfall.
A count of outstanding ballots Thursday brings to a close the election of 2019.
Drastic cuts in global carbon dioxide emissions are necessary to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Still, decades of human-generated carbon emissions have already locked the planet into some degree of warming and change, climate scientists say. In other words, the only relevant question is, just how bad will it be? And the answer […]
Yesterday, a state appeals court upheld two towns’ bans on oil and gas drilling in separate but similar cases. The decisions were cheered by environmental and anti-fracking groups, as well by some elected officials. One case challenged a ban in the Town of Dryden, (decision here) and the other, in the Town of Middlefield (decision […]
As another key deadline approaches in the state’s high-volume hydraulic fracturing review, some local elected officials are speaking out about their concerns with the gas extraction technique. And they’re also sharing their concerns with the state review. Yesterday, a group of the officials, all members of Elected Officials to Protect New York, held a press […]
Officials in many New York communities have already passed laws to keep high-volume hydraulic fracturing outside of their limits. But the bans and moratoriums have raised a big question: if the state ultimately allows high-volume fracking, will the local protections survive? Ultimately, the courts will decide the matter. In fact, earlier this year a judge […]
