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During the test, the 156-foot-long BOLE solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust.
Northrop Grumman Tests Most Powerful Segmented Solid Rocket Booster Ever Built
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Research assistant Alyssa Carpenter inspects timbers from of a wooden Revolutionary War-era gunboat to prepare for the craft's partial reconstruction at the New York State Museum, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Albany, New York.
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New York AG Says JBS Made Misleading Environmental Claims to Boost Sales
The company allegedly claimed it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 despite having no viable plan to meet that commitment.
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A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building, April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy Center, in Buchanan, N.Y.
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New York Governor Blocks Discharge of Radioactive Water into Hudson River
They planned to release 1.3 million gallons of water with traces of radioactive tritium from the retired riverside plant 25 miles north of New York City.
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This photo, provided by the Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, on Aug. 28, 2022 shows some of the 296 firearms, including 177 ghost guns, that were surrendered to law enforcement at a gun buy-back event hosted by her office and the Utica, NY, Police Department.
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Seller Exploits Gun-Buyback Loophole with 3D Printer
A person used a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk and then turned them in for $21,000 in gift cards.
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The Greenidge Generation bitcoin mining facility, in a former coal plant by Seneca Lake in Dresden, New York, is shown in this photo from Nov. 29, 2021.
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Landmark Bill to Limit Cryptomining Passes NY Legislature
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Smokestacks from the Greenidge Generation power plant tower above nearby homes, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, in Dresden, N.Y.
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Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Raises Ire of Environmentalists
They fear a wave of resurrected fossil-fuel plants pumping out greenhouse gases.
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An unmodified, open-pollinated American chestnut bur grows on a tree at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science & Forestry Lafayette Road Experiment Station in Syracuse, NY on Sept. 30, 2019.
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US to Consider Genetically Altered Tree
In a feat of genetic engineering, about half the chestnuts collected at this college experiment station feature a gene that provides resistance to blight.
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In this June 5, 2019 photo, Natural Power Group co-owner Sarah Bower-Terbush stands in front of a power turbine at the company's hydroelectric site in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. She and her husband sell renewable power to local customers from three hydroelectric sites they operate in the Hudson Valley. Customers say they like investing their money locally in clean power.
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Hydro Plants Serve Neighbors
The idea is similar to farm-to-table, except for electricity instead of food.
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In this June 10, 2011 file photo, crews dredge the Hudson River in Fort Edward, N.Y. The work is part of a project on the upper-Hudson to clean up PCBs released by General Electric decades ago. The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to make an announcement Thursday, April 11, 2019, on GE's $1.7 billion Hudson River cleanup.
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The decision triggered condemnation from officials who say contaminant levels from its industrial pollution remain too high.
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Former Iraqi refugee Majid Al Lessa works on a lighting fixture on the assembly floor of LiteLab, which employs refugees, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. Thousands of refugees have settled in Buffalo in recent years even as others have left the city. Some locals worry that the Trump administration's policies reducing the numbers of new arrivals will harm the city's economy.
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AP: Refugee Limits Slowing Growth of Shrinking Cities
Cities like Buffalo had been locked in a long, losing struggle to keep people from leaving for places with less snow and more jobs. Enter refugees and immigrants.
October 24, 2018
In this Wednesday, May 16, 2018 photo, tunnel workers push equipment up a rail track to a machine boring a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel for the Delaware Aqueduct, in Marlboro, N.Y. Hard-hat workers are toiling deep underground, 55 stories beneath the Hudson River, to eliminate gushing leaks in an aging tunnel that carries half the city's water supply over 85 miles from Catskill Mountain reservoirs.
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Using a cylindrical, space-rocket-size borer, they are carving through solid rock to create a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel around the worst of the leaks.
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In this Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, photo, Jonathan Cypert stands in front of his wife's 2017 Subaru Impreza, in Virginia, that he purchased with bitcoins he acquired in 2011. Cypert sees his bitcoin cache as a nest egg to tide him over after he retires from the military.
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In this Thursday, April 6, 2017 photo, Sunita Halasz shows how she charges her electric car at her home in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Halasz has tips for 'driving electric' along the lonely New York Adirondack Mountains roads: learn where the charging stations are, bring food and books for the kids during three-hour recharges, use the defroster in 10-second bursts since it sucks battery life, and have a backup plan.
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a handful of snow-melting road salt mined by the American Rock Salt Co. is photographed at a service station in Williamsville, N.Y.
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