Tag: New York
‘A major win for New Yorkers’: Court of appeals upholds state’s...
It would be unacceptable for a pipeline – or any project – to pollute our waters and undermine New Yorkers’ health and water resources.
New York is on the verge of major climate action –...
Lawmakers stalled as advocates pushed to get an ambitious climate bill through the state senate before the legislative session ended.
Cuomo wants to privatize Penn Station; that’s a bad Republican idea
It would be tragic if a “summer of hell” for New York commuters led to a lifetime of servitude to corporate interests.
Upstate New York Trump voters hit hard in President’s proposed 2018...
Beware the supporter scorned.
Human Rights Watch fights to end child marriage in New York
Countries that no longer allow the marriage of a 14-year-old child include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
Nation’s largest offshore wind farm gets green light
In this new era, we'll need this state leadership more than ever.
8 states that made 2016 a huge year for clean energy
These victories—many of them bipartisan—across the country give hope for 2017.
Former police chief sentenced to prison for assaulting handcuffed man
U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler referred to the former police chief as a “dictator.”
New York Mayor Apologizes for Police Killing of Mentally Ill Woman,...
"A woman who deserved treatment and compassion was shot and killed. We’re talking about a crime."
The $7.6 Billion Bail-out of New York Nuclear Plants
“Nuclear energy is neither clean nor renewable,” testified Pauline Salotti, vice chair of the Green Party of Suffolk County, Long Island at a recent hearing on the plan.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.