Tag: <span>Doreen Harris</span>

Q&A with NYSDEC Commissioner, Basil Seggos: On Leading NYS’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

Passed with a majority vote in both the State Senate and Assembly, Governor Cuomo signed the historic Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (The Climate Act) into law in July of 2019.   As perhaps our country’s most comprehensive and aggressive state-level response to the climate crisis, the Climate Act requires …

Leading the Clean Energy Transition in New York State

The State of New York has been a leader in energy systems since 1882 when Thomas Edison developed the world’s first electrical grid in New York City. As new challenges related to climate change and its various consequences, such as Superstorm Sandy, have arisen throughout the 21st century, New York …