Today’s Headlines
That Traffic Disaster Near the Brooklyn Bridge? It’s Just a Movie Shoot (Newsday) Bronx Merchants Unite to Fight Parking Tickets (Daily News) Green Power Plant Planned for Randalls Island (City Limits) MTA Backtracks on Hell’s Kitchen No. 7 Stop (AMNY) Crackdown on Long Island ATVs: “There’s a War Out There” (Newsday) “Sharrows” Coming Soon to … Continued
January 23, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Cop in 2001 Fatal DWI Up for Parole (Daily News) Mom of Drunk-Driving Victim Seeks Leniency for Driver (LA Times) Hoboken Councilman Arrested for Drunk Driving (Gothamist) Trans-Hudson Rail Tunnel Inches Forward (AMNY) Bush Expected to Call for New Fuel Economy Standards (NYT) Hell’s Kitchen Residents Fight for No. 7 Stop (AMNY) Ridership Surges at … Continued
January 22, 2007
Battle of the Weatherpeople
It's not just the weather that's in an uproar these days, it's the weatherpeople, too. After Heidi Cullen, host of the Weather Channel program "The Climate Code," wrote on her blog that she thought forecasters who deny manmade climate change were uneducated on the issue and should perhaps have their American Meteorological Society credentials revoked, she came under attack for smothering scientific debate, both on her own blog and elsewhere. On the website of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Marc Morano wrote:
January 19, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Gas-guzzling Londoners Could Pay More to Park (Guardian) MTA to Fix LIRR Platform Gaps (AMNY) LIRR knew of Gap Danger for Decades, Did Nothing (Newsday) House Votes to Rescind Oil Drilling Tax Breaks (NYT) Business Coalition for Emissions Cap (NYT) China: Kingdom of Bicycles No More (Toronto Star) New Standards Will Raise Carbon Offset Costs … Continued
January 19, 2007
Today’s Headlines
New Congress Waking Up to Climate Change (NYT) Sen. Bernie Sanders Will Push “Gold Standard” Global Warming Bill (VT Guardian) New York 2106: A Watery Vision (Polis) What Crackdown? Diplomats’ NYC Parking Fines Near $18 million (AMNY) Nassau County Boss Suozzi Apologizes for Car Wreck (Newsday) Admits lights and sirens “should only be used in … Continued
January 18, 2007
McKibben on Climate Change: “We Don’t Have a Movement”
If the melting of Greenland can't make the American people pay attention to global warming, can anything? Environmentalist Bill McKibben, whose The End of Nature was one of the first books to raise the alarm on climate change for a general audience in 1989, is hoping that "Step It Up 2007," a day of rallies planned for April 14, will at least get things started.
January 17, 2007
Today’s Headlines
Subway Elevators Are Heading South (Daily News) Lessons from the Number 7 Train Extension (Gotham Gazette) Working-Class Housing Complex Topped With Greenery (NYT) Plans for Bronx apartments include green roofs, even bicycle parking
January 17, 2007
Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda
Only a couple of hundred yards from the rusting remains of the 1964 World's Fair, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out his own vision for the future of New York City this morning. In a speech entitled "New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge," the mayor introduced a broad plan for creating a sustainable city "making room for 900,000 new residents, upgrading aging infrastructure, cleaning up pollution, and coping with the effects of global climate change."
December 12, 2006