New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he will move against any attempt by the Trump Administration to roll back the Clean Power Plan ordered by the EPA during the Obama Administration. President Trump signed a sweeping order Tuesday ending what he calls “federal overreach” and “job-killing regulations.” He calls the plan that orders major […]
New York and four other states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, demanding they do something about pollution that blows in from other states upwind. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says those states are mostly west and south of the northeastern states. New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont say air […]
The City of Rochester has been awarded $200,000 in federal brownfields funding to be used in cleaning up environmental contamination at former industrial sites so they can be redeveloped. Mayor Warren’s office hasn’t specified where the EPA money will be used. It goes into the city’s Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund.