climate change

Ozone layer good news for us all
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jan 13, 2023
There’s good news about climate change — for a change. A United Nations study shows that steps to repair the Earth’s ozone layer are working. These ar...
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NY must respond to extreme weather
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Sep 09, 2021
As President Biden toured the sites of calamitous flooding in New York and New Jersey, flanked by every imaginable local elected official, he had plen...
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Cuomo outlines ambitious green dreams
News, NY State News
DENIS SLATTERY New York Daily News 
Jan 14, 2021
ALBANY (TNS) — In the third installment of his prolonged State of the State address, Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday that New York must embrace renewable en...
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No, Joe, we’re not in a ‘climate crisis’
Local Columnists, Nation World
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 23, 2020
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It’s an even worse thing to manufacture. Althou...
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Wear handcuffs, hide under the bed and stay there
Local Columnists, Nation World
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Dec 01, 2020
We’ve never seen anything like it, have we — some state governments not just advising people on how to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but dic...
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Paris accord nearly ignored by nations
Local Columnists, Nation World
Nov 18, 2020
The 2016 Paris Agreement represented the first global effort to address climate change. It’s become clear, however, that only a fraction of the 197 si...
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Common sense on climate change
Commentary, Local Columnists
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Sep 26, 2020
The wildfires in the West have burned up millions of acres, taken dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, cost enormous amounts of money to com...
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Home Again: Did we miss something?
Commentary, Local Columnists
DEB WUETHRICH Special to the Olean Times Herald 
Jun 23, 2019
I love spring. Opening windows so the long-awaited fresh air can come in. Listening to birdsong waft in on a breeze. Watching the parade of kids on th...
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