Environment
Environmental news from WRVO Public Media.
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With temperatures in the mid-90s state and county officials are warning residents to stay indoors and to stay cool over the weekend.
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The New York Independent System Operator finds potential power deficits in New York City as soon as 2025, and says the rest of the state is at risk as well.
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Andrew Vander Yacht, who leads the Applied Forest and Ecology Lab at SUNY-ESF, said all indication and records show these are unprecedented events and that climate change is real.
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Border patrol is considering building a new facility in Blind Bay in the Thousand Islands to replace its current one on Wellesley Island.
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The Lake Guardian, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research ship, made a stop in Oswego Monday as part of the Lake Ontario Shipboard Science Program where high school teachers participate in data collection and research for a week.
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A New York task force investigating the impacts of flooding throughout the Mohawk and Oswego River basins has released a set of recommendations to mitigate future flood damages.
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National Grid and Convergent Energy and Power are operating the largest, and perhaps the first, solar and storage energy system in Cicero. National Grid New York President, Rudy Wynter, says the site could be the path forward for clean energy systems.
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They allege that the EPA's current standards aren't good enough and that even if they were, the agency's testing and certification program is so ineffective that it has failed to ensure those standards.
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State officials are again warning that unhealthy, smoky air from multiple wildfires burning in Canada will drift over New York this week.