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The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York announces it has achieved Climate Registered status with The Climate Registry. It is the next step in ongoing efforts to increase awareness of energy usage ...
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Read More »Google to invest in offshore wind power project
NEW YORK CITY — Google is investing in an extensive network of deepwater transmission lines worth billions for future wind farms off the East Coast, the company said Tuesday.
Read More »Study: N.Y. grid ready for wind power
Watch out, Chicago. New York state may be a new wind capital in waiting. Chicago can keep its moniker as the windy city. But a new study found that New York may be suited to becoming a windy state — at least when it comes to electricity.
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Read More »Green Innovation Grant apps available
The state’s Environmental Facilities Corp. is accepting applications for the 2010 Green Innovation Grant Program, which will offer $15 million to municipalities, nonprofits and businesses for water conservation, energy efficiency and environmental projects.
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Read More »BP to sell $2B to $3B in new bonds
NEW YORK CITY — BP is planning to sell $2 billion to $3 billion in new bonds for the first time in more than a year. The move takes advantage of low interest rates and adds a fresh infusion of cash before incoming ...
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Read More »NY plant owner to build giant wind turbines
GENEVA — A hair-care company says it's spending about $7 million to build two giant wind turbines at its manufacturing plant in upstate New York. Zotos International Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. ...
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Read More »Great Lakes nuke shipment plan stirs accident fears
NEW YORK CITY — Environmentalists and some local officials are protesting a Canadian company’s plan to haul 16 scrapped generators from a nuclear power plant across three of the Great Lakes.
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Read More »Town of Italy, HSE split over fees
The long-term relationship between the Town of Italy in Yates County and a Rochester law firm appears to be over. Mounting legal bills, which the town has said it cannot pay, have led Harter Secrest & Emery LLP attorneys to withdraw from representing the town ...
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Read More »Hayward to testify to UK lawmakers
LONDON — Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward will come under scrutiny from British lawmakers Wednesday over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, months after he offered few explanations for the accident at a testy hearing in Washington.
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Read More »EPA told gas drilling does, does not taint water
BINGHAMTON — Rep. Maurice Hinchey told a federal hearing Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process that he said has contaminated water near drilling sites around the country.
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Read More »EPA holding upstate hearings on gas drilling
BINGHAMTON — A pair of public hearings on a federal government study of a controversial drilling technique are set for upstate New York. The Environmental Protection Agency is holding four-hour hearings at The Forum in Binghamton ...
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Read More »Industry: No need for EPA to regulate gas drilling
WASHINGTON — The oil and natural gas industry is willing to cooperate with a federal study of natural gas drilling, but opposes regulation of a practice known as hydraulic fracturing.
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