Energy
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 4:19 pm
Image from 2009 campaign contribution report for the Chesapeake Energy Corporation FED-PAC.
New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand has avoided taking a stand on natural gas drilling in upstate New York, a hard line to walk when the issue is playing an... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 11:28 am
IwanowiczAfter firing Pete Grannis, the former head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, last week, Governor David Paterson has a new man for the job: Peter Iwanowicz. According to a press release issued by the governor's office yesterday,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 - 10:48 am
Looks like strong rural feelings about outdoor wood boilers have got the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation running scared. After issuing new regulations for OWBs last week, the DEC decided to un-issue them.
The regulations were... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 - 3:04 pm
UPDATE: The day we published this post, PA governor Edward Rendell signed a moratorium on any further gas development in state forests. Wonder if he reads National Geographic.
Pennsylvania may own the trees in its state forests, but the state doesn't have... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 - 4:25 pm
A slew of environmental groups are rallying to side with Pete Grannis, the erstwhile Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, who was fired abruptly last night. The groups expressed their concern by releasing a press... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 10:00 pm
GrannisPete Grannis, the head of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was abruptly shown the door today by Governor David Paterson. Capitol Confidential has the scoop, and it's a doozy, with juicy inter-agency emails and lots of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 2:46 pm
The first of 56 UV-irradiating steel-disinfection chambers being installed in the DEP's new ultraviolet Disinfection Facility in Westchester County. Photo via the DEP's Facebook page.
Beginning in 2012, all the water from the Catskills-Delaware watershed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 11:36 am
An outdoor wood boiler, photographed by Flickr user julianmeade.
After a long, hot summer of discontent, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has given up on outlawing old outdoor wood boilers. The agency is rolling out regulations... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 2:32 pm
A new mobile investigative outfit called After The Press, founded by Kingston resident Paul Joffe, is marching to a different drum than most of their media fellows. They're not trying to be objective. And they're not trying to beat other reporters to big... Read more
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