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DASNY joins international climate registry
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Case Digests
- Western District Case Notes
- Second Circuit – Distribution of a controlled substance: United States v. Parasmo
- Fourth Department – Default: April I.O. v. Taylor, et al.
- Fourth Department – Murder: People v. McCullough
- Fourth Department – Termination of trust: HSBC Bank USA, N.A. Trustee v. Campbell
- Fourth Department – Expert testimony: People v. Douse
- Second Circuit – Unlawful seizure: K.W. v. City of New York
- Second Circuit – Second Amendment: Christian v. James
- Fourth Department – Motion to renew: Brown v. State of New York
- Fourth Department – Adult Survivors Act: Jane Doe v. Moran, et al.
- Second Circuit – Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act: Article 13 LLC v. LaSalle Nat’l Bank Ass’n
Law News
- Second-degree murder count reversed, leaving first-degree conviction
- Court of Appeals ends foster care program
- Experts highlight tax and regulatory changes
- NY appeals court reinstates robbery indictment
- Court of Appeals affirms convictions despite tainted transcript
- Phillips Lytle names new Rochester office leader
- Court annuls New York State’s wetland regulations for failure to comply with SEQRA
- Driver who caused fatal MVA sued by victim’s mother
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