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New York’s New Cryptomining Law Will Spotlight Industry’s Massive Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions

ALBANY, Nov. 29, 2022 — The state’s new cryptocurrency law won’t impede either of New York’s two fossil fuel-powered Bitcoin…

Greenidge Sounds New Alarms About Its Financial Condition in SEC Filing, Says Cash Expected to Run Out in March

DRESDEN, Nov. 15, 2022 — Greenidge Generation LLC reported a net loss of $23.1 million for the three months ended…

Casella Poised to Spread Sewage Sludge Over Hundreds of Acres in Steuben as Maine Bans Practice Due to Tainted Milk

THURSTON, Nov. 8, 2022 — A unit of Casella Waste Systems Inc. has acquired or leased 2,789 acres from a…

DEC Slaps Casella and Ontario County With $500,000 Fine for Air and Water Quality Violations From 2015 to 2022

SENECA, Nov. 3, 2022 — Casella Waste Services and Ontario County have agreed to pay a $500,000 fine and take…

Finger Lakes Republicans United Against Popular Environmental Bond Issue on Ballot as ‘Proposal 1’

ALBANY, Nov. 1, 2022 — Voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve the issuance of $4.2 billion in state…

DEC Declined to Provide Updated Air Emissions Data From Greenidge Before Public Hearings on Firm’s Air Permit

(UPDATE, 5 p.m., Oct. 25, 2022: The DEC provided two emailed responses Tuesday to WaterFront’s Sept. 27 FOIL request for…

Farmland Runoff, Intense Storms Raise Phosphorus Loads That Drive HABs in Seneca-Keuka Watershed, 9E Study Finds

GENEVA, Oct. 22, 2022 — A comprehensive plan to cut phosphorus pollution in the Seneca-Keuka Watershed won final state approval…

Leachate from Seneca Meadows Blamed for ‘Sewer Gas’ Stench Incident in May; One Firm Asks: How Dangerous Was It?

WATERLOO, Oct. 18, 2022 — On May 3, Seneca Falls town officials ordered the Seneca Meadows Inc. landfill to stop…

Greenidge Shares Nosedive 30 Percent Following News Late Friday That CEO Jeff Kirt Was Immediately Resigning

DRESDEN, Oct. 11. 2022 — Shares of Greenidge Generation LLC have plunged nearly 30 percent following the sudden resignation of…

Greenidge’s CEO, Jeff Kirt, Abruptly Resigns as Company Reels Financially; Canadian Forestry Exec Replaces Him

DRESDEN, Oct. 9, 2022 — Jeffrey Kirt, Greenidge Generation Holdings LLC’s chief executive officer, abruptly resigned Friday from the Bitcoin…

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