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Thermal energy networks are emission-free infrastructure projects that use water-filled pipes to transfer heat for heating and cooling. Some networks include geothermal energy, which uses the temperature of the Earth for heating and cooling.

Island Harvest Food Bank and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) are partnering in the 34th “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive on Saturday, May 9.

The coalition represents about half the LIRR’s 7,000 union workers, including train operators, ticket agents, electricians, signal workers, and machinists.

A strike involving 150 King Kullen employees was called off after union representatives reached a tentative agreement overnight.

Meat and seafood workers at 25 store locations across Long Island say they began the strike due to unfair labor practices.

John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said the workforce behind these projects plays a key role in maintaining those standards.

Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference on March 24.