Author: <span>Suzie Ross</span>

Q&A with NYSDEC Commissioner, Basil Seggos: On Leading NYS’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

Passed with a majority vote in both the State Senate and Assembly, Governor Cuomo signed the historic Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (The Climate Act) into law in July of 2019.   As perhaps our country’s most comprehensive and aggressive state-level response to the climate crisis, the Climate Act requires …

Remembering Climate Change in the Age of COVID-19

    As we’ve shifted our attention to the global COVID-19 pandemic, is it impractical or insensitive to hope that climate change issues don’t get buried in the deluge of this more visible and frightening reality? For those of us focusing our careers on environmental stewardship, it’s our mission to …