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Energy storage systems will play a key role in role in reaching New York’s 50% by 2030 renewable energy generation goal. Using energy storage systems, such as large-scale batteries can help drive down electricity costs, integrate renewable energy, and provide a stable supply during peak electric usage or operate critical systems during a grid outage. Scaling them up, however, is proving to be a challenge.

The Regional Plan Association (RPA) published their Fourth Regional Plan on November 30th, 21 years after the previous one was

There are many provisions in hundreds of pages in the House and Senate tax reform bills and the debate over the corporate tax rate, state and local tax deduction, and the individual mandate on healthcare has been sucking up much of the oxygen in the room. The legislation also includes a number of other measures that are flying under the radar and would have a negative impact on the environment.

The New York City Department of Sanitation’s (DSNY) proposed commercial organics regulations were heard at a public hearing last week,

though New York and many other states along the Atlantic coast have bounced back from Sandy’s devastation -- which required a total federal aid package of $50.5 billion -- there is still a lot of work to be done.

New York State has set an ambitious goal of generating at least 50 percent of our energy from renewable sources by 2030. While cleaning our energy mix is a bipartisan and largely uncontroversial proposition in the state in theory, in practice is has been significantly more challenging. This has prompted the state, renewable energy developers and environmental groups to look for policy changes to make it easier to build renewables.

Just four short months after President Trump’s announcement to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, and the signing of Executive Order 26, Mayor De Blasio released today 1.5°C: Aligning New York City with the Paris Climate Agreement, which outlines the City’s rapid plan to limit greenhouse gases over the next four years.

The Trump Administration is revisiting Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, with plans to weaken minimum average fuel efficiency standards for car manufacturers over the next several years. NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, NYC Mayor de Blasio, NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and NYC Comptroller Stringer have each announced their strong opposition.