An EV charging station. ( Photo via Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice ) New Rules Proposed to Make Rideshare Fleets Zero-Emission by 2030 Companies such as Uber and Lyft will have to fully electrify their fleets in seven years, according to proposed rules introduced... News 20 Aug 2023 | 11:10
Heat island effect may make some New Yorkers fell as if they are eight degrees hotter than the air temperature in non urban areas. And poorer neighborhoods with few trees and less AC indoors makes it feel even worse. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Roasted Apple: It Really is Hotter Here Than Everywhere Else If you think it is hotter in the Big Apple than in other cities, it’s not your overheated imagination. A new study finds... News 07 Aug 2023 | 03:08
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer with mural artists ( Photos courtesy of the Office of Gale A. Brewer) The Art of Resiliency Last Thursday Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer unveiled the winning murals - and the artists who created them -... News 27 Sep 2019 | 02:41
Tens of thousands packed Foley Square before a march to Battery Park Friday as park of the Climate Strike NYC, a movement led by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) 'We Will Make Them Hear Us' Thousands of young people flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan Friday afternoon, chanting and waving protest signs, all... News 23 Sep 2019 | 12:28