Yonkers Insider: New York League of Conservation Voters: Environmental News: January 30.

 

Here's what we're reading this week:

NYLCV Releases 2022 NYC Council Environmental Scorecard The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) today released its 2022 NYC Council Environmental Scorecard, in which Council Members and the body as a whole are evaluated based on their support of environmental bills in the previous year and whether those bills passed. Read More

How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Whole on Vacation  If you are thinking of going somewhere warm for spring break, here are a few green steps you can take to keep your house safe while at the same time limiting the amount of energy being used in your vacant home. While many of these suggestions are for people living in a house, some apply to apartment dwellers as well. Read More

Environmentalists Eye Zero Waste by 2040 - Capital Pressroom Podcast Featuring Julie Tighe   New York League of Conservation Voters President Julie Tighe outlines a goal of zero waste by 2040 in New York and discusses how a proposal from Gov. Kathy Hochul could help realize that future.   Listen here.

Warming Waters Affecting Bay Scallops, SBU Researchers Confirm   While researchers have been examining a range of potential factors in the Peconic Bay scallop die-offs for the past four years, the consistent trend has been higher water temperatures and a corresponding reduction in oxygen levels. Above, a researcher holds juvenile bay scallops at the Marine Science Research Center in Southampton in December 2021.   (Newsday)

Op-ed: Hochul Must Push Congestion Pricing   Jon Orcutt of Reinvent Albany, an NYLCV partner, penned a Daily News op-ed in support of congestion pricing, a top NYLCV priority: "Gov. Hochul, with the election behind her, should forcefully fill the policy and political vacuum around congestion pricing and embrace its implementation — and the huge environmental, transportation efficiency, traffic safety and mass transit recovery benefits it will bring — as a major accomplishment and legacy." (Daily News)