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In response to reporting by New York Focus and Gothamist, State Senator Zellnor Myrie has introduced a bill to standardize ...

After a year of walking back its major climate commitments, New York moved an inch forward on Monday, when the Department of ...

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An investigation by New York Focus and Gothamist found lenders are using a disputed method of calculating debts in thousands ...

New Yorkers will pay more for wind and solar if Hochul doesn’t sign property tax legislation in the coming days, the industry ...

Federal budget cuts will force hundreds of thousands off New York's free Essential Plan, with some families facing $10,000 ...

Just last month, the state argued in court that it couldn’t halt the all-electric buildings law even if it wanted to. Then it ...

In at least one case, police may have violated a state court ruling prohibiting local law enforcement from conducting civil ...

Zohran Mamdani barely campaigned on climate. The New York City mayor-elect’s overwhelming focus has been on affordability, from an early ad declaring that “the cost of living is the real crisis” to ...