Mark Harrington
Staff Writer at Newsday
Newsday reporter covering energy, fisheries, Indian affairs, agriculture. Email: [email protected] https://t.co/fnTwru66bB
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2 days ago |
newsday.com | Mark Harrington
Equinor is perhaps just days away from pulling the plug on Empire Wind, the $7 billion-plus offshore wind farm planned off Long Island’s South Shore, just weeks after the Trump administration issued a stop-work order for the project. Norway-based Equinor’s top U.S. wind official, Molly Morris, has been working behind the scenes ever since to determine specifically why the federal government put a halt to the project and to emphasize the freeze’s real-life impacts on U.S. jobs and the economy.
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6 days ago |
newsday.com | Mark Harrington |Sandra Peddie
The former chief of staff of the SteveBellone administration who chaired Suffolk County’s opioid settlement-fund committee has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine following a Suffolk County Board of Ethics investigation that found she violated two ethics laws in applying for a top job at a not-for-profit group that received funding. In an April 28 settlement agreement obtained by Newsday, Ryan Attard, who served under former County Executive Steve Bellone from May 2020 until Dec.
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6 days ago |
newsday.com | Mark Harrington
The Long Island Power Authority is yet again at a crossroads. After more than a year of studying and testing offers from two companies seeking to manage the electric grid for the next decade, three seasoned energy executives from LIPA last week issued a "strong" endorsement for a company called Quanta Services, a $22 billion energy infrastructure conglomerate from Houston, to take over.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Mark Harrington |Sandra Peddie
Suffolk County’s system for selecting, awarding and disbursing money from the state’s opioid settlement fund has been beset by delays, a faulty selection process, poor documentation and lack of public participation, according to an audit released by the Suffolk comptroller Tuesday. Lack of meeting records and approval of big-dollar awards without public participation "question the integrity and validity of the whole process," Comptroller John Kennedy said in an interview Tuesday.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Mark Harrington
The state Supreme Court judge who in March ordered a halt to construction at the Shinnecock Nation’s Westwoods gas station project in Hampton Bays has issued a new order allowing limited work to take place to secure the site and protect against damage.
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Developer days away from the plug on $7b Empire Wind project off LI. The Norway-based company says a stop-work order by the Trump administration is coasting it upward of $50 million a week. https://t.co/yVnSSBujvf
LIPA finds itself at another crossroads after rejection of grid manager Two top LIPA officials said they were not sure what would happen next in the effort to award the contract to manage the electric grid for the next decade. https://t.co/lfgR2LMN6x
Judge allows limited work on Shinnecock gas station to secure site The Shinnecock Nation has filed an appeal to the state Appellate Division against the March preliminary injunction that halted work on the site to the state. https://t.co/15emX6yYzm