The National Grid office in downtown Syracuse during the early evening. (File photo- Syracuse.com) Syracuse, N.Y. -- New York is using $250 million in federal pandemic assistance to help low-income households that have fallen more than two months behind on their electric and gas bills. Consumer advocates say the number of New Yorkers who fell behind on their energy bills soared during the coronavirus pandemic. As of April, nearly 1.3 million New York households had fallen beh

Broome County is making efforts to go green behind the wheel. NovaBus (Maci Cosmore) VESTAL (WBNG) -- Broome County is making efforts to go green behind the wheel. By next year, electric buses will be hitting the roads across Broome County. “We are moving towards an electric future,” said Brome County Commissioner of Public transportation Greg Kilmer. “I think the trend is quite obvious; Both the funding and a lot of the engineering and development is is around full electric

Humans pumped 36 billion tons of the planet-warming gas into the atmosphere in 2021, more than in any previous year. It comes from burning oil, gas and coal. The Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Hawaii began measuring the amount of carbon in the atmosphere in 1958.Credit...Susan Cobb/NOAA The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere broke a record in May, continuing its relentless climb, scientists said Friday. It is now 50 percent higher than th