Climate change

Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to delay for a decade New York State’s climate goals meets with stiff opposition from environmental and health advocates.

Putting America first shouldn’t require fantasy or sacrificing our children’s future. The EPA must restore Clean Air Act rules designed to protect public health. Editorial.

Many of the reversals EPA Administrator Zeldin announced yesterday would have direct consequences for the eastern Long Island congressional district that sent Zeldin to the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. 

The consequences of short-sighted, if not outright fantastical, energy policies should be getting harder and harder to ignore. Yet somehow, we seem content to sacrifice the very future of our planet for a quick buck.

With the end of the 2023-2024 legislative session just six weeks away, Environmental advocates have launched a full-court press to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill that would ban the harvesting of horseshoe crabs in New York.

Safe-energy activists are concerned that Long Island might again be targeted for nuclear power plants, as proponents push the claim that it's "carbon-free.

Existing technologies—led by solar and wind—cannot solve the climate crisis.

After Gov. Hochul said N.Y. won't meet its 2030 climate goals, her comments on the possible future role of nuclear power has clean energy advocates worried.

Census tracts in Calverton, Riverhead, downtown Riverhead, Riverside, Northampton, Flanders are among those identified statewide as "disadvantaged" communities that would be targeted for investment under the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

A climate action rally organized by an 11-year-old Lea Rodger, who said she was inspired by activist Greta Thunberg, drew nearly 50 people to downtown Riverhead Saturday.