Steve Englebright

The New York League of Conservation Voters releases its endorsements. One surprise: No endorsement in the Craig Johnson- Barbara Donno state Senate race in Nassau. Overall, the NYLCV endorsed 9 Republicans and 57 Democrats. But incumbent Dem Johnson didn?...

Businesses and other non-residential power consumers will be able to sell electricity back to utility companies that they generate by solar, wind or other renewable energy-powered equipment under legislation passed this week by the State Legislature....

McCain's not 'green,' Newsday You had a small article ["On the rail" News, May 13], regarding Sen. John McCain's call for lower emissions and his criticism of the Bush administration for its failure to adopt the Kyoto Protocol. As a newspaper, isn't...

The state's environmental agency has started work on a study to assess the en.vironmental impact of ground-up tires used in modern synthetic turf fields. Dozens of these fields have been installed across Long Island in recent years. Department of...

Just two months ago this editorial page declared that Albany was broken and badly in need of fixing. " ... the Capitol has deteriorated into a secretive bazaar of bad faith and bad deals and a place where too little important gets accomplished," we said....

By Bridgehampton's standards today, it is a large farm -- 40 acres off Scuttle Hole Road that for years produced crates of vegetables sold at a nearby farm stand. "There isn't much left of this kind of farmland in the town,” said Paul Brennan, chairman...

For years, New York lawmakers have tried -- and failed -- to pass a law that would regulate assisted living to protect the state's frailest elderly residents, including the thousands who suffer from dementia. Since 1997, advocates and lawmakers in Albany...

WHO: Birder, botanist, educator, author, all-round trailblazer and passionate defender of Long Island's flora and fauna. A conservation project director for the Long Island Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. LIFE STORY: Turner, 47, of Massapequa Park,...

The weather was right: hot and sticky. So was the terrain: swampy. The right plants -- subtropical ferns -- grew here, too. But Jurassic Parkway won't be in theaters anytime soon because so far, there's only indirect evidence that dinosaurs lived on...

The ghost forest lies at the end of a rutted road through a piney woodland, beyond a stand of cedar and tupelo trees, across a grassy wetland and over a weathered dune to the edge of a gently arcing beach on the southern shore of Flanders Bay. Coated...

On a moonlit night almost 20 years ago, a geologist snuck onto private land deep in the Calverton woods, canoed to the middle of a large pond and began lowering a long rope he had carefully knotted at three-foot intervals. He never got to the second knot....