Scientists have long insisted that we can and must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees—and some still do, even as that grim ...

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming ...

In New York, no past commercial activity is ever safe from political risk. Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act into law. Over the next 25 years, it will collect $3 ...

The author writes "Numerous lawsuits have been brought in the federal and state courts in New York concerning climate change. Some were under two important state statutes on the subject – the ...

(The Center Square) — A coalition of green groups are taking New York state to court in an effort to force the Hochul administration to implement a 2019 climate change law. A lawsuit filed in ...

On December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law S02129B, also known as the New York Climate Change Superfund Act (Act). This law is modeled after the federal Comprehensive ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A large countdown clock in New York City’s Union Square has now ticked below five years – inching ever closer to the ominous outcome it’s trying to warn against. The ...

The Climate Change Superfund Act charges any fossil fuel company that emitted over a billion tons of greenhouse gas from 2000 to 2018.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Climate Change Superfund Act on Thursday. The law would address climate change by imposing a huge tax on fossil fuel companies—they will collectively owe an ...

The lawsuit challenges a new law that mandates major energy producers to contribute $75 billion to a fund aimed at addressing climate change damage.

New York’s heart broke for L.A. as our sister city burned. For those of us who had the ugly but fundamentally human thought that this was a California issue, a state long beset by fires — and ...

On Dec. 26, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act into law. If it survives the many legal challenges it is expected to face, the act has the potential to ...