Latest News: New York City

New York City's Independent Budget Office just released a report that added weight to two major concerns NYLCV has consistently raised about the City's Solid Waste Management Plan. The report was timed to coincide with the tenth year of the twenty-year Solid Waste Management Plan.

There’s a debate among New York’s elected officials over how to fix the city’s debilitated, overcrowded transit system. Increasing delays and accidents have caused Governor Andrew Cuomo to declare the public transportation system to be in a state of emergency in desperate need of a solution. Although Governor Cuomo controls the transportation authority, he has called upon Mayor Bill de Blasio to help mend the crisis too, and they both have conflicting ideas on how to do so.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) approved the first phase of Consolidated Edison’s Shared Solar Pilot program, which helps low-income residents,

A report released this morning by the New York Building Congress provides analysis for the future of electricity in New

 City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez (representing District 10) and 27 other City Council Members are calling on Mayor de Blasio

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a mandatory market-based program among nine northeastern states, including New York, to reduce

This week, a report mapping sea level rise across the United States and a magazine article on the magnitude of

This week, eight groups (including NYLCV) released a proposal called “Transportation and Equity: A 2017 Agenda for Candidates.” In it,