"To confront climate change and social inequality in tandem, we must actively, and intentionally improve housing, green spaces, and air quality for our most vulnerable residents."
Read More“Part of creating a more equitable and sustainable city is prioritizing the health and safety of children as well as community as a whole through the electrification of school buses.”
Read More“We need to try harder to save its natural quality — it has potential to be truly beautiful for plants, animals and humans alike!,” she continued. “The oil from the road shouldn't be seeping into the soil and the lake!”
Read MoreA path for wealthy New Yorkers heading to Long Island mansions is now a public park set for a makeover.
Read MoreA plan to transform Rikers Island into a renewable energy powerhouse would focus on the relatively small island’s capacity for storing power to send to the electrical grid when demand rises, according to a panel of policy experts and New York City officials.
Read More“This is all about creating that spark, that love of science. For young people it’s giving them that possibility to say, ‘Oh I want to do that, I want to learn more.’ Give them that window into a whole new world that they never even knew existed.”
Read MoreA new Astoria power plant would “only continue the environmental injustice that’s dominated western Queens for too long.”
Read More“We have ten years to be able to not only implement changes required with this law but changes to reverse significant impact to our planet related to greenhouse gas emissions.”
Read MoreThe climate crisis threatens to submerge the Rockaway peninsula, flood low-lying communities and exacerbate health problems, particularly among low-income residents, in the borough of 2.3 million people.
Read MoreIn the coming weeks, partners across the city like the Queens Botanical Gardens, Big Reuse and GrowNYC will be able to facilitate local collections, which were scaled back when COVID-19 increased budget restrictions.
Read MoreMore than 60 local residents joined Community Board 3 Saturday to clean up the Flushing Bay Promenade and keep trash from entering the polluted waterway.
Read More“This proposal, just as any further expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, is incompatible with our climate goals.”
Read More“This is typical conditions on a public city street with blood, filth, feces everywhere.”
Read More“Many people walk through these areas especially since enforcement is basically non existent.”
Read MoreA Queens family divided.
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