Nearly $300 million in climate resiliency funding is available here in New York through new grant opportunities. Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement during a presentation at Pope Francis’s three-day climate summit at the Vatican, “From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience.” Hochul shined a spotlight on the challenges the state faced when a Hudson Valley city’s environmental issues were exposed by a TV documentary and lawsuit…
That funding for Mount Vernon came through two years ago, after the city was accused by the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to comply with the Clean Water Act in 2018, allegedly letting raw sewage flow into its storm sewer system before discharging it into the Hutchinson and Bronx Rivers. The situation was the focus of a “CBS Reports” docu-series “Wasteland.”