Rebecca Redelmeier
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Covering climate in upstate NY for @WSKG, the Southern Tier @NPR station. Stories at @NPR @WashingtonPost @Guardian @TheIntercept. H/T @newmarkjschool
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1 week ago |
wskg.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
On a recent Wednesday evening at Binghamton University, Lois Grady-Wesbecher carefully laid out pieces of brightly patterned yellow and orange fabric on a conference table, each one cut into the shape of a flame. Working with her friend, Karen Jennings-Laskowski, she aimed to create a panel of a quilt that depicted recent wildfires — and their tolls. “This one is Paradise, which was California in 2018, 86 people died,” said Grady-Wesbecher, pointing to one fabric flame.
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3 weeks ago |
wamc.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
President Donald Trump has said he wants to grow the American oil and gas industry and build more pipelines — including one in New York. Before a meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul last month, Trump set his sights on one project in particular called the Constitution Pipeline. First proposed in 2012, it was meant to transport gas from Pennsylvania through New York’s Southern Tier and Catskills to meet up with other pipelines outside of Albany. But it was never built.
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1 month ago |
wamc.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
Most old buildings in New York are heated by furnaces or boilers, which burn fossil fuels. For landlords who rent their properties, upgrading to less-polluting electric systems is often an expensive and logistically challenging process. That’s the challenge Ithaca homeowner Ruth Yarrow faced last year. Her pumpkin-colored house in the city’s Southside neighborhood relied on a gas furnace.
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1 month ago |
wamc.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
Electric school buses cost around $400,000 each, plus charging infrastructure — a high price tag for many New York school districts working to meet the state’s deadline to electrify all their buses by 2035. So last year, when the Environmental Protection Agency awarded about $100 million in federal funding to nearly 50 New York school districts to purchase electric buses, local communities largely welcomed the investment.
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1 month ago |
wskg.org | Rebecca Redelmeier
The country’s second-oldest environmental film festival kicks off in Ithaca on Friday. The 28th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, or FLEFF, features 35 films by local and international filmmakers, running from March 28 – April 13. Screenings and events will be held on Ithaca College's campus and at the Cinemapolis movie theatre in downtown Ithaca.
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Very cool data visualization from @puddingviz on how middle schoolers are doing, based on survey answers from millions of students. https://t.co/E7ePgc860W
Trump’s federal job cuts have left many early-career scientists in turmoil. @WSKG's @auroragberry and I spoke to Ph.D. students whose advisers, employed by the USDA, lost their jobs last month. They told us the upheaval has already taken a toll. https://t.co/5rLOSXQU5S
Ithaca got a lot of attention when it committed to electrifying all of its buildings by 2030. It partnered with a company called BlocPower to manage the effort. But the whole thing didn't quite go as planned. For @NPR, I reported on the lessons learned: https://t.co/WT7wPM9C9W