Environment News | Page 13 of 14 | amNewYork

photo-13-2048×1587

Brooklyn

Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Brooklyn will again have a live crowd this year

Posted on May 29, 2021

Pattiandthomas_L1050781

Musicians to come together for World Environment Day virtual festival

Posted on May 28, 2021

rockawaybeach1-dean-06

Eight New York City beaches to officially open for swimming this weekend

Posted on May 28, 2021

Mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus were found in Staten Island, according to the Department of Health.

Bronx

Health Department to kick off mosquito season by spraying marshlands in the outer boroughs

Posted on May 26, 2021

DSC01662 copy 1

Politics

Kathryn Garcia secures endorsement from statewide environmental organization

Posted on May 25, 2021

Aerial photos of the Bronx New York

Op-Ed | To reach green goals, New York needs peakers that run on gas

Posted on May 24, 2021

People visit Little Island Park, a new public park space which sits on stilts over the Hudson River during opening day in New York

Chelsea

Little Island, a park built by a billionaire, further transforms Manhattan’s West Side

Posted on May 22, 2021

A natural gas flare on an oil well pad burns as the sun sets outside Watford City, North Dakota

Business

Oil drillers and Bitcoin miners bond over natural gas

Posted on May 22, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Parked cars are partially submerged in flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York

To protect a community from climate change, New York is elevating a park

Posted on May 21, 2021

Ravenswood_Generating_Station_41875-1024×644-1

QNS

Western Queens community leaders support plan to turn Big Allis into renewable energy hub

FILE PHOTO: Sylvester searches through remains of his house which was flooded and then burned to the ground during Hurricane Sandy for corpses of his five cats in Midland Beach neighborhood in Staten Island

Climate change boosted Hurricane Sandy economic losses by billions: study

Posted on May 18, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Holding tanks are seen in an aerial photograph at Colonial Pipeline’s Dorsey Junction Station

Colonial Pipeline paid hackers nearly $5 million in ransom: Bloomberg News

Posted on May 13, 2021

DSCF9409-1536×1024

Brooklyn Paper

New song pays homage to Gowanus Canal’s toxic ‘Black Mayo’

water rate hike

Health

New York City set to dip deeper into homeowner’s pockets with 2.7% water rate hike

Posted on May 10, 2021

A man and woman walk up the stairs to St. Clair Place in Riverside Park. (Jan. 6, 2014)

Politics

Overbuild in Riverside Park to get a $348 million facelift, says de Blasio

Posted on May 4, 2021

DSCF9863-1536×1024

Brooklyn Paper

NYC faces $60K per day in fines for Gowanus tank delays: EPA

big whales 3

Arts & Entertainment

‘Secrets of Whales’ shows just how bound to we are to nature

Posted on April 25, 2021

de blasio brown compost bin

New Yorkers not ready for mandatory compost recycling: de Blasio

Posted on April 23, 2021

FILE PHOTO: An Exxon sign is seen at a gas station in the Chicago suburb of Norridge

Politics

New York state pension fund backs activist nominees in Exxon proxy fight

Posted on April 23, 2021

50-kent-water-fountain-revised

Brooklyn Paper

Construction starts on long-awaited 50 Kent Park on Brooklyn waterfront

Adams-photo

PoliticsNY

Eric Adams’ environmental agenda: A greener city, a brighter future

Screen Shot 2021-04-22 at 12.29.26 PM

Politics

De Blasio’s busy Earth Day agenda: Oil industry lawsuits, composting return and electric autos

Posted on April 22, 2021

DSC04170-2 re

Earth Day action: Elizabeth Street Garden joins coalition to fight for NYC green spaces

Posted on April 22, 2021

Lizard Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia

Special Report-This Hot Lister advises Bill Gates on climate change

Posted on April 22, 2021

Local rides a motorbike on a road near geothermal power station unit owned by PT. Geo Dipa Energi (Persero) at Dieng mountain area in Banjarnegara

Politics

It’s Geo-dude: De Blasio wants to expand geothermal heating and cooling in NYC

Posted on April 21, 2021

Basil Rathbone With Bottle

Earth Day: Our/New York Distillery and ReThink Food launch sustainable basil-infused vodka

Posted on April 21, 2021

House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing titled “Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail, Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots,

PoliticsNY

AOC reintroduces Green New Deal resolution to Congress

Tulips in bloom at Jefferson Market Garden naturally attract children.

New York City parks beckon, emerging during the pandemic spring

Posted on April 20, 2021

The Carroll Street Community Solar Farm in Gowanus will generate enough energy to power more than 20 New York City households, and is awaiting Con Edison approval before launching.

Politics

Water works: De Blasio doubles down on renewable energy for NYC by 2025

Posted on April 20, 2021

DSC02219-2 re

Keeping Governors Island in ‘sheep’ shape with the help of woolly creatures

Posted on April 19, 2021

51046788771_c36f499b3a_3k

QNS

Mayor comes out against Astoria peaker plant proposal, says it will ‘take us backwards’

228f432ff44cf0b01f6471ba8bacf9225973_escr_1.w600.2x

City officially launches $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project

Posted on April 15, 2021

Organic Apples on Tree

New York’s Angry Orchard gifts apple tree saplings in annual Arbor Day tradition

Posted on April 15, 2021

fort green

Brooklyn

City plans to chop trees for Ft. Greene Park redesign, declines to say how many

Posted on April 15, 2021

New York City Central Park with cloud and blue sky

Two New York City parks to become free of pesticides with help from national yogurt brand

Posted on April 14, 2021

DSC03303-2 re

Brooklyn

Cleanup time: NYPD, Shea head up big blitz in Brooklyn and beyond to wipe out graffiti

Posted on April 10, 2021

DSC01736-2 re

Lower East Side

Environmentalists march in Union Square to prevent climate change

Posted on April 8, 2021

Photo-297

Lower East Side

Exclusive: Council Member Justin Brannan joins the fight to reveal redacted “ESCR Value Engineering Study”

Posted on April 4, 2021

Rear view of woman sitting on bench at Central Park in city

Op-Ed | Parks are critical infrastructure — NYC’s next mayor needs to treat them that way

Posted on March 31, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden hosts meeting on infrastructure with members of Congress at the White House in Washington

Biden kicks off effort to reshape U.S. economy with infrastructure package

Posted on March 31, 2021

A sanitation truck cleans up 6th Ave after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York

Politics

Spring cleaning: NYC gives funding boost to Sanitation Department to help NYC sparkle again

Posted on March 30, 2021

New York goes green

Politics

NYC pumping $6 billion in pension funds toward climate change investments

Posted on March 23, 2021

NYC Planning Commission approves adoption of Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency

Posted on March 17, 2021

raging-fire

Analysis: Why Biden’s securities regulator faces climate crackdown challenges

Posted on March 17, 2021

New york city skyline with clouds

Politics

These New York City lawmakers had the best environmental records in 2020

Posted on March 12, 2021

Rave 2

Radioactive rave: COVIDiot party at Queens Superfund site shut down by sheriff

Posted on March 6, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Senate holds confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett to be Supreme Court Justice

Courts

Barrett authors first U.S. Supreme Court ruling, a loss for environmentalists

Posted on March 4, 2021

Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police search for survivors after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam, in Chormi

World

India glacier avalanche leaves 18 dead, more than 200 missing

Posted on February 8, 2021

More from around NYC

endorsements

Mayoral candidate Michael Blake qualifies for $2M in matching funds just days before primary

unknown substance

Mother and baby sprayed with unknown substance during M train assault in Long Island City: NYPD

NY: Jonathan Blum Art Show

‘Undeniably Jonathan’: Arts Gowanus celebrates artist Jonathan Blum’s 60th birthday with retrospective art show

Mayor Eric Adams on NYC Pride, his LGBTQ record, gender-affirming care, and more