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Climate Change
After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises
Climate-conscious New Yorkers hope the mayor hasn’t forgotten them.
During his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani courted votes from environmentalists. He promised to expand green spaces in public schools and equip them with renewable energy, to meet the demands of the city’s building electrification laws and to increase investments in city parks.
That would be American ratepayers—i.e., you.
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Katharine Kollins, the president of Southeastern Wind Coalition.
Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?
County officials have said they will eventually close the incinerator, located in a predominantly Black community. Advocates want a concrete plan.
Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.
Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator
After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises
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