Carbon emission rules more flexible than critics claim: EPA regional...
States have until 2030 to get their carbon emissions down to 32-percent below 2005 levels, under guidelines laid out in the Clean Power Plan announced by President Obama earlier this week.The...
View ArticleActivists demand end to coal bailouts for Cayuga plant
A small but passionate group of About 50 activists with the Sierra club, gathered on the southern lawn of Albany’s Academy Park to deliver a 14-thousand signature petitions demanding Governor Cuomo...
View ArticleWATCH: Volunteers take to their kayaks to monitor Hudson River water quality
The Wallkill River Boat Brigade is a group of volunteer kayakers who monitor the water quality of the tributary of the Hudson River. the Innovation Trail's Jenna Flanagan took to a kayak to see what...
View ArticleResidents rally against compressor station
New York may have banned hydraulic fracturing for natural gas- aka fracking - but that does not mean residents of upstate New York are no longer concerned. Controversial pipelines that would pump gas...
View ArticleGreat Jack O' Lantern Blaze brings tourists to Lower Hudson
It’s one thing to carve a pumpkin for Halloween, it’s something else entirely to bring to life an entire sea serpent, circus train or resurrect dinosaurs… with pumpkins.But that’s exactly what the...
View ArticleWalkway to Paris, pushing for international action on climate change
Ahead of the upcoming Paris Climate Change Conference, Hudson Valley Environmentalists invited the public to join them in a public stance against climate change on the Walkway over the Hudson.The...
View ArticleWATCH: Do not drink the water
It’s something most of us take for granted. You turn on the tap, fill a glass of water and have a nice refreshing drink.But what if that water has been deemed too contaminated to consume? That’s...
View ArticleWATCH: Digitally preserving part of African-American history
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, African-Americans began moving out of the South to cities in northern states like New York in search of a better life, a period known as the Great...
View ArticleWATCH: No pipeline - FERC
Saying the proposed pipelines are all one system, just like the nation's rivers or even our arteries, activists from across the Northeast gathered on the east steps of New York’s State Capitol to...
View ArticleWATCH: NY's financially strapped towns
Innovation Trail reporter Jenna Flanagan takes us to Saugerties, Ulster County, which landed on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's list of municipalities experiencing fiscal stress.Find out how towns...
View ArticleTiny houses have big impact for homeless
The number of homeless New Yorkers seems to be on the rise, so much so that a group of 51 millionaires recently petitioned the state government to raise their taxes permanently from 7.65 percent to...
View ArticleWATCH: Repair Café gives broken items new life
Every other month, the basement of the Clinton Avenue Methodist Church in Kingston becomes a restoration workshop.The Repair Café came to the Hudson Valley four years ago by way of John Wackman, a...
View ArticleDisadvantaged youths receive outdoor STEM education
Newburgh, New York, often makes national lists as one of the worst places to live, especially for young men. That’s why an alternative all-boys middle school partnered with Mohonk
View ArticleState gaming board chooses three casino locations, Tyre residents vow to...
It may not have taken place around a roulette wheel, but there was a palpable air of suspense as the state Gaming Facility Location Board announced three of the nearly 20 communities hoping to get a...
View ArticleAnti-fracking activists now fight against oil infrastructure
Hydraulic fracturing is currently not allowed in New York state. But a group of medical professionals, advocates and residents are warning that the industry still poses a grave risk to the empire...
View ArticleWATCH: Deregulation of rental market would outprice middle and working class...
With the 2014/15 legislative session coming to a close, state lawmakers, who’ve been ‘distracted’ by corruption scandals, still have some major pieces of legislation to tend to. On that docket are the...
View ArticleWATCH: Battle for medical marijuana sites - this week on New York Now
This week in our latest Innovation Trail report, Jenna Flanagan visits one downstate company hoping to grow and distribute medical marijuana after the state passed legislation allowing it last year....
View ArticleRiver swim draws attention to fecal contamination in Hudson River waterways
The dog days of summer are sizzling New York making water recreation more tempting than ever. The Hudson River is much cleaner than it was and the Innovation Trail’s Jenna Flanagan talks to advocates...
View ArticleCarbon emission rules more flexible than critics claim: EPA regional...
States have until 2030 to get their carbon emissions down to 32-percent below 2005 levels, under guidelines laid out in the Clean Power Plan announced by President Obama earlier this week. The...
View ArticleActivists demand end to coal bailouts for Cayuga plant
A small but passionate group of About 50 activists with the Sierra club, gathered on the southern lawn of Albany’s Academy Park to deliver a 14-thousand signature petitions demanding Governor Cuomo...
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