One month after submitting a proposal to the state government for clean energy investment, Community Offshore Wind is already starting to invest.
The joint venture between RWE Renewables and National Grid has put over $100,000 into youth STEM education programs for the future workforce, collaborating with multiple community partners in downstate New York to provide access to museums, outdoor spaces, and environmental and marine education for hands-on learning experiences.
New York state generates more than 17 million tons of municipal solid waste each year, with a lackluster recycling rate below 20 percent. Instead of being recycled, much of our waste is going to landfills, being burned in incinerators, or ending up as plastic pollution in our communities and waterways. Each year companies ship billions of products, exacerbating the paper and plastic waste crisis, yet they bear no responsibility for managing the packaging waste they create.
The general aggravation of bad weather became very specific for 30 Long Islanders gathered Tuesday morning at the Melville park ‘n’ ride on the Long Island Expressway. It was 6 a.m., and members of the Long Island Lobby Coalition were waiting in the cold and slush for the bus that would take them to Albany for their annual Long Island Lobbying Day — a bus that never came.
There are 13 ongoing water remediation projects for the Town of Hempstead’s Water Department including three related to water in East Meadow.
The East Meadow project includes wells 1 and 3 on Prospect Avenue West, wells 5 and 11 on Prospect Avenue East, and East Meadow Site II with wells 6 and 8.
The town’s water department pumps 18 million gallons of water each day to over 120,000 customers. The East Meadow Water District, within the town’s water department, serves 40,000 customers, including several schools, Nassau University Medical Center, and Eisenhower Park.
Nacole Hutley, mother of Javien Coleman, stands beside photos of her late son on Jan. 23, 2023.
A pending lawsuit blames both the South Country Central School District and the Town of Brookhaven for the death of Javien Coleman, a teenager who is believed to have developed cancer due to toxins emitted from the Brookhaven Landfill while at school.
The funding is extremely timely, because the cost of the advanced oxidation technology is expensive.”
ADRIENNE ESPOSITO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
The Town of Hempstead has received $5 million from Washington to continue improving East Meadow’s drinking water. The funding is part of the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month.
BROOKHAVEN, Long Island (WABC) -- A mother is planning to sue a school district and town on Long Island, claiming they are responsible for her son's death.
Grieving mother, Nacole Hutley, repeated the words of her dying son.
"'I would never have went to school there,' he said he would have never went if he would have known," Hutley said.
The allocation of $3 million in support of mental wellness services is exceptional and will go a long way”
SHARI CAMHI SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
THE COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING’S IMPACT
Of the larger funding initiatives —$9 million for the upgrades to Bunky Reid Park at the Yes We Can Community Center in North Hempstead, $5 million for Part B of the East Meadow Dioxane Mitigation Project in the Town of Hempstead, $3 million for social and emotional learning programs at the Baldwin Union Free School District, $2 million to expand homeless safety net programming for The Inn, or Interfaith Nutrition Network, Inc, and $1.1 million for workforce development activities at the Urban League of Long Island, Inc, in Plainview.
