One after another, for four hours, speakers at a hearing last Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens lined up to decry a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach.
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By Brian Racow
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1/14/15
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy — which crippled the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant with a nine-foot tidal surge — environmental groups are supporting the privatization of the plant and urging that critical upgrades be made.
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By Brian Croce
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1/3/13
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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World leaders — and a throng of environmentalists and reporters — descended on Copenhagen last week for the 2009 Climate Conference convened by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what a raucous show it was, with 1,000 black-masked “protesters” getting arrested after hurling bricks through windows and battling police.
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Scott Brinton
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12/17/09
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