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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Green Power and more of the week’s top stories

GREEN POWER, GREEN PARK: All this week on Adirondack Explorer’s website we’ve been digging into renewable/clean energy issues, highlighting recent Explorer stories. Each day focused on a different topic:

Monday: Key takeaways from New York State’s groundbreaking climate legislation
Tuesday: A live event and discussion
Wednesday: Recent park projects
Thursday: Renewables and the APA
Friday: Wood/biomass

Here’ a look a those and more of the week’s recent stories:

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/green-power-event-and-more-from-this-week

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Green Power week of discussion around renewable/clean energy

by Melissa Hart

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Join a conversation about clean energy initiatives across the region.

The Explorer’s Policy Reporter Gwendolyn Craig will serve as moderator with the following panelists: Noah Shaw, partner and co-chair, Renewable Energy Practice, Hodgson Russ LLP; Conrad Karsten, project developer for Sunvestment Energy Group (Saranac Lake Community Solar); Emmett Smith, founder of Northern Power & Light.

The webinar is set for 9 a.m. Tuesday, October 20 on Zoom. Click here to register

All this week we’re digging into renewable/clean energy issues, highlighting recent Explorer stories. Each day will focus on a different topic:

Monday: Key takeaways from New York State’s groundbreaking climate legislation
Tuesday: Our live event and discussion
Wednesday: Recent park projects
Thursday: Renewables and the APA
Friday: Wood/biomass

Join us for ongoing conversations about the future of renewable energy in the park.

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Green Power, Green Park

by Editorial Staff

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Join a conversation about clean energy initiatives across the region.

The webinar is set for 9 a.m. October 20 on Zoom. Click here to register

Adirondack Almanack file photo of solar panels in Tupper Lake.

Saturday, September 5, 2020

New York’s Climate Act Sets Nation’s Most Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Limits

by NYS DEC

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos released proposed regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emission statewide and implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The proposed regulations mark a milestone in realizing New York’s nation-leading clean energy and climate agenda.

The announcement demonstrates New York’s leadership on climate by taking a new and ambitious approach to the accounting of harmful emissions from fossil fuels – within and outside of the state – and for potent, short-lived pollutants such as methane. Additionally, the proposed regulations enable New York State to apply a flexible, stakeholder-driven approach for the annual accounting of net emissions.

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Friday, July 3, 2020

The whale oil of our generation

by Kate Fish

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Verkhoyansk, a small town in the Arctic Circle reported a temperature of 100.4 Fahrenheit on June 20, 2020, setting an all-time record. Indeed, the last 5 years have been the hottest in recorded history. We are also seeing, in the wake of COVID-19, that the consequences of profligate production and consumption of fossil fuels are causing more trouble than just rising temperatures and massive climate disruption.

The New York Times reported on June 18 that, “Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature, underweight or stillborn, and African-American mothers and babies are harmed at a much higher rate than the population at large, according to sweeping new research examining more than 32 million births in the United States.”

A Harvard study in 2018 reports that, “Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-takers show that hotter school days in the year prior to the test reduce learning, with extreme heat being particularly damaging and larger effects for low income and minority students.”

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