News & Events Good News in Bad Times: New York Invests Big in Environment

Back in February, I was interviewed on American Public Media's "Marketplace" to provide commentary on how environmental programs are being slashed nationwide to reduce states' huge budget deficits. The damage of such cuts can be severe. California officials were considering rollbacks in critical emissions regulations, while Florida was contemplating relaxation of rules permitting new development -- described recently in Time magazine as a "planning-nightmare sprawl of golf courses, strip malls and cookie-cutter subdivisions named after the plants and animals they replaced."