By Anna Sanders 11/03/11 12:39pm

environment

Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, Eric Goldstein from the Natural Resources Defense Council, former Commissioner of the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection Albert F. Appleton, Deborah Goldberg from Earthjustice, and actor/activist Mark Ruffalo.

Mark Ruffalo Attends Tension-Filled Hydrofracking Forum on UWS

Last night, actor Mark Ruffalo was on hand at an Upper West Side public forum to voice his opposition to the proposal allowing  hydrofracking in New York State.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal arranged the forum as a means for her UWS constituents, along with other New Yorkers, to discuss the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s proposal to open the Marcellus Shale to natural gas drilling, which comes after the moratorium on the practice was lifted in June. The DEC has opened its Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS), which explores the controversy surrounding hydrofracking, to public comment through Dec. 12.  Read More

By Azi Paybarah 6/04/07 4:36pm

Selling the Bloomberg 2030 Plan

National environmental leaders will take out ad space in the New York Times, and Times Union tomorrow to publish their an open letter to Eliot Spitzer and lawmakers urging them to support Mike Bloomberg’s 2030 plan.

“Gridlock contributes to smog and acts as a brake on economic growth. Business as usual is not a Read More

By Nicholas von Hoffman 3/26/07 12:00am

It’s Easy Being Green: Just Ask Kravis!

Texas Pacific and Henry Kravis’ outfit, KKR, must have had hired the best press agents in the business to break the big news about their buyout of TXU, the giant Texas electric public utility. Not only was it hailed as the biggest deal in business history, but it was made to seem that it was Read More