AG Eric Schneiderman by Cliff Weathers New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the Federal Government to prove hydraulic fracturing is safe. Scheiderman has said that his office will sue to keep the drilling practice out of a state watershed if the Feds fail to do so. Scheiderman...
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State Senator David Carlucci (SD-38) announced legislation yesterday that he says that will bolster New York farms by providing incentives for local restaurants to buy their produce. At a press event at Dr. Davies Farm in Congers, Carlucci was joined by local farmers, State Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, Jr., and renowned Chef Peter Kelly (Xavier’s)...
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The Comptroller is particularly critical of New York county governments using LDCs to take the debt off their books, creating indirect deficit financing.
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Rep. Nan Hayworth by Flo Greenwood, special to Left of the Hudson Despite Congresswoman Nan Hayworth conspiring to kill it, the Taylor Biomass Project will get $100 million in Federal loan guarantees and create hundreds of jobs in the Orange County area. The alternative energy project, which turns trash otherwise headed into a landfill...
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Evidence continues to mount that natural gas is not as clean as we'd like to think.
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The Cornell study confirmed that the shale gases resulting from "fracking" operations will created more greenhouse gases than the burning of coal over the next two decades.
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Three State Senators, including Sen. David Carlucci, will host a hearing on May 12 in Stony Point regarding the public’s worries about Indian Point’s nuclear reactors in light of the recent disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. Based on the hearing results and the testimony heard at the hearing, the three...
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Homelessness is reaching critical proportions in New York City and the number of families utilizing the shelter system has increased dramatically.
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GOP Senator says conservatives ranks are rife with hateful, cruel members.
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The emergency command system would likely break down in a serious nuclear or radiological emergency, and that more flexible, adaptive systems are needed.
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