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The decision by the #pipeline biz, #WilliamsCompanies, to restart efforts to build the pipelines comes a week after the #Trump admin withdrew its opposition to a wind energy project, Empire Wind, off the coast of #LongIsland, after weeks of lobbying by #NewYork Gov. #KathyHochul.

As part of the discussions over letting Empire Wind move forward, Hochul said she would work w/the #Trump admin on new #energy projects that comply w/state #law, though she did not explicitly mention #pipelines.

Dear Friends,
Last summer we had a torrential downpour that dumped 10+ inches of rain and collapsed a centuries old dam. The debate: restore it for recreation or let the river run free again: newsday.com/long-island/enviro

#LongIsland #NewYork #DamRemoval #Press #Newspaper

If you live on Long Island, (or even if you don't) please subscribe to this regional newspaper. It's the only daily that serves almost 3 million people.

Newsday · Blydenburgh dam collapse spurs river vs. pond debate at parkBy Tracy Tullis

Today in Labor History May 23, 1903: Thousands of children went on strike in the textile mills of Philadelphia. On July 7, Mother Jones began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the deplorable conditions for child laborers. He refused to see them.

During this march, she delivered the “The Wail of the Children” speech in which she said: “In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?” It was also during that speech when she said, “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to get there. He had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he could be a United States Senator. One hour of justice is worth an age of praying.”

Trump admin lifts hold on #offshore #windfarm, doesn’t explain why
Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody's explaining why it ended.
#EmpireWind is a large project being built off #LongIsland by #Equinor, Norwegian energy company. The first of two phases, Empire Wind 1, will have an 800MW capacity and has already received permitting and environmental approval. #BOEM indicates a review of its approval is ongoing, but construction can resume during the review
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Trump admin lifts hold on offshore wind farm, doesn’t explain whyBy John Timmer

#Wildfire on #LongIsland New York.

Dark symbols are MODIS and VIIRS satellite heat detections within prior 6 hours. This data is not real time and locations are only approximate. Sometimes this data is ‘false positive’.

Never ignore an order to evacuate. The fire officials have information that you do not.
#SuffolkCounty #BrushFire #NYwx

Open GISsurfer map:
mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfe