Cuomo's budget takes on New York's power grid
In his annual budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to make changes to the state’s power grid.The changes to utility regulation are meant to make it easier for local, small-scale producers to get...
View ArticleNew York ends 40-year ban, issues rules for LNG storage
For the first time since the 1970s, New York state will issue permits for new liquefied natural gas storage facilities. The new regulations will require a permit for every new facility, with each one...
View ArticleCayuga Power Plant and NYSEG fail to agree on plant's future
The future of the Cayuga coal-fired power plant in Tompkins County remains up-in-the-air, almost three years after plans to close the plant were announced.
View ArticleSouthern Tier town's "toxic plume" reduced by 80 percent, says DEC
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has been working with IBM to clean up a chemical spill in the Southern Tier town of Endicott for years now. At a public meeting recently, officials...
View ArticleTompkins County wind farm would be first of its kind In New York
A Tompkins County-based group of investors is nearing completion of an unlikely project -- an industrial-scale wind farm. It would be made up of seven turbines and produce up to 12 megawatts of...
View ArticleFormer Syracuse National looks back on winning NBA title 60 years later
The NBA playoffs begin this weekend. And while big city teams like Oakland, Cleveland and Atlanta are the favorites, sixty years ago the league looked much different.In 1955, the Syracuse Nationals...
View ArticleHow improved veterinary science led to discovery of salmonella
Today is Cornell University’s 150th anniversary. Its charter was signed in Albany in 1865. One of the school’s founders, Ezra Cornell, was a farmer and made veterinary science a priority. This is the...
View ArticleProposed manure lagoon causes push for stricter regulation in Dryden
Manure lagoons help farmers manage their manure, but one planned lagoon in Tompkins County caused a neighbor to look for a way to fight it.Heather Gowe is not sure where exactly the proposed manure...
View ArticleNew York's fracking decision will be hard to replicate or overturn
Regulators in New York are moving ahead with a plan to prohibit hydrofracking within its borders. In the latest step, the state released its final environmental review last week. And New York’s unique...
View ArticleFederal government rejects appeal of Seneca Lake gas storage approval
Federal regulators have denied opponents’ arguments against a proposed natural gas storage facility near Watkins Glen.Arlington Storage Company wants to build two natural gas storage facilities next to...
View ArticleNYSEG seeking rate increase
New York’s Public Service Commission is considering a price increase request by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation. The average customer’s natural gas bill would increase by $10 a month...
View ArticleIthaca police and residents see body cameras as just one step
Starting as early as the end of the summer, all officers in the City of Ithaca Police Department are going to wear body cameras. City of Ithaca Police Chief John Barber presented the department’s...
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