The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) directs the Climate Justice Working Group (CJWG) to establish criteria for defining disadvantaged communities. This dataset identifies areas throughout the State that meet the final disadvantaged community definition as voted on by the Climate Justice Working Group.
The tracts will receive a minimum 35% of "overall benefits of spending" on clean energy and energy efficiency programs.
Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Final-Disadvantaged-Communities-DAC-2023/2e6c-s6fp
Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.
The Savannah is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship the U.S. ever built, and the only nuclear vessel in the world designed with passengers in mind. As NPR's chief correspondent for all things atomic, I've wanted to see her for years.
As Amherst, Mass., writes its rules for where to put solar, some local environmentalists worry about farmland and forests getting lost to solar projects. Other local environmentalists worry that overly restrictive solar rules would limit the town's ability to fight climate change.
This map shows highlighted in orange the lands owned by the Nature Conservancy in New York State. Click on the lands for details.
I was reading that Deep Water Horizon spill cold be seen from space in the archives, and I thought it would be interesting to make a map. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(satellite)#/media/File:Gulf_Oil_Spill_Creeps_Towards_Mississippi_Delta.jpg
This interactive map shows all of the operable power plants in New York State. Not all of them ran in 2016 or some only ran occasionally, but they could be brought online at least part of the year to generate electricity.
Data Source: EIA Form 860. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/
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