Dec 9
2013
The governors of eight Northeast states, including New York, want the federal government to force Midwest-Rust Belt states to prevent coal plant soot and smog from wafting across borders. The solutions are costly air pollution control technology or closing the coal plants for good.
Dec 2
2013
Two Erie County towns–Tonawanda and Amherst–rank in the top 10 of courts in the state that collect the most fines. A data and map project from the The Post-Standard.
Nov 26
2013
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tax commission has determined that corporate tax breaks totaled $1.8 billion last year. “If you eliminated all the credits, you could cut business taxes enormously for everybody,” one official told the New York Daily News.
Nov 25
2013
Wealthy interests are driving the state’s education reform efforts, usurping veteran Education Department staffers. “It is unsettling to watch the dismantling of public education by inexperienced employees hired from a special fund,” one principal told the Albany Times Union.
Nov 25
2013
David Cay Johnston, a friend of Investigative Post, reports for Newsweek about the federal government’s growing hostility to requests for documents and data from journalists under the Freedom of Information Law.
Nov 14
2013
Ontario is a year away from removing coal-fired power from its grid. But the smog isn’t going away. That’s because half of Ontario’s smog comes from the United States, namely Michigan, where half of its electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. In comparison, about 3 percent of New York’s electricity comes from coal.
Nov 12
2013
New York’s electricity bills are 60 percent higher than the national average. And those bills could be on the rise by as much as 13 percent. A report from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Nov 10
2013
The Albany Times Union explains the many nuances involved in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s push to export the model used to develop a nanotechnolgy sector in Albany to other other upstate cities, including Buffalo. The plan here involves developing clusters focused on energy, technology and medical.