Long Island

Energy Initiatives Will Help Put People to Work by Creating Clean Energy Jobs; State Will Partner with the Long Island Power Authority, Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College

May 11 2009 -- New York Governor David A. Paterson and Congressman Steve Israel today announced that the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), along with Stony Brook University and Farmingdale State College, have proposed the creation of Long Island’s first integrated Smart Energy Corridor.

The initiative would assist residential, commercial and industrial LIPA customers in monitoring and reducing energy usage, increase reliability, encourage energy efficiency by facilitating smarter technologies, and create clean energy jobs.    » read more »

February 10, 2009 -- UPTON, N.Y. -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced the selection of the general contractor for construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, which will create as many as 1,000 jobs over the next several years. Torcon, Inc., a New Jersey firm with many projects in New York State, has been chosen to construct the building that will house the accelerator ring, the largest component of the machine.

Rendering of NSLS-II    » read more »

March 13, 2008 -- Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today joined the members of her Long Island Sound Liquefied Natural Gas Task Force to publicly release their report condemning the proposed Broadwater project, which would place an enormous floating industrial platform in the New York waters of the Sound.    » read more »

Senator Clinton Requested FEMA Assistance Following Storms Last Year

February 1, 2008 -- Washington, DC — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today welcomed the announcement of four grants totaling $7,972,123.50 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help repair damage to Long Island’s dunes and beaches caused by the April 2007 storm. Senator Clinton requested federal assistance when she visited storm ravaged parts of New York last April.    » read more »

Clinton: Preparedness and Supplies are Vital to Ensure Long Island Residents are Protected in the Event of an Emergency

December 12, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today renewed her call to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to pre-deploy hurricane and disaster preparedness supplies to Long Island for the 2008 hurricane season. In a letter to FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison, Senator Clinton urged FEMA to provide hurricane supplies to the area as was previously done in 2006.    » read more »

Calls on Allstate to Reconsider Plan which is Beginning to Impact Many Residents and Homeowners

August 13, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling on Allstate Insurance Company to reconsider its decision to terminate flood coverage for existing policy holders in Westchester, Long Island and New York City.    » read more »

Senator will Raise Concerns about Homeland Security Funding at a Neeting with Chertoff this Week; Recent Figures Show Department of Homeland Security Still Does Not Take Threats Against New York Seriously

July 10, 2007 -- Washington, DC – In anticipation of a meeting with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this Thursday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today called on the Secretary to explain the Department’s reasoning behind the continual short-changing of the New York metropolitan area when it comes to national homeland security funding.    » read more »