CARLE PLACE, NY (April 25, 2022) - Today, Senator Anna M. Kaplan (D-North Hills) passed legislation, S.23A/A.4386, to promote the development of new electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure to help ease the transition to electric vehicles by New Yorkers. The bill passed as part of a package of legislation supported by Senator Kaplan that will combat climate change and promote environmental conservation.
(Albany, NY) Senator Anna M. Kaplan (D-North Hills) and the Senate Democratic Majority today advanced legislation to better protect the environment, support renewable energy, and strengthen regulatory standards across New York. The bills include agreements related to renewable energy development rights on reforestation areas, an exemption from requirements for the alienation of parkland for certain renewable energy generating projects, directives for the state to study and make recommendations on renewable energy resources at decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites.
Using Tax Day as a backdrop, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was joined by elected officials, impacted homeowners and environmentalists in blasting the IRS for failing to follow through with a ruling it said would be issued last year declaring that grants under the County’s landmark Septic Improvement Program (SIP) should not be considered taxable income for homeowners. The County Executive called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to intervene and direct the IRS to act to end the double taxation of funding Suffolk County approved by Suffolk County voters to protect and improve water quality.
The waste that goes into the anaerobic digester facility under construction in Yaphank is as important as the products that come out.
What goes in: organic materials like food past its prime and the leftover scraps from restaurants, cafeterias, and commercial kitchens.
Beneficial items that come out: compost and the kind of liquid fertilizer in high demand by agricultural businesses. The facility will produce enough energy to run itself. Excess water will be sent to a treatment plant. And, also importantly, the byproduct of biogas will go into the National Grid distribution system, heating people’s homes and running their stoves.
Twenty years ago, rising water temperatures, nitrogen pollution and disease wiped out the lobster population in Long Island Sound.
Lobstermen picked up and left, in many cases leaving their traps behind.
But on the floor of the Sound, tens of thousands of traps are still working, catching the few remaining lobsters along with other species.
It’s called ghost fishing.
Suffolk County officials on Wednesday announced they will spend $1 million to plan coastal resiliency projects to counter the impact of increasing storms and flooding resulting from climate change.
A task force of environmentalists, county officials and others will identify expected effects of climate change in Suffolk and propose ways to mitigate damage and protect communities, officials said.
