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Hochul, who visited Southampton to pull a ceremonial switch for the $2.01 billion, 12-turbine array, said it marked “an incredible milestone of progress for New York” and for “all America,” with enough energy to power 70,000 homes.

An East Patchogue construction company will pay $144,000 in federal fines and “take substantive steps” to improve jobsite safety as part of a settlement over the death of a worker killed in a 2018 building collapse while installing roof panels.

New York generates more power from renewable energy than any state in the Eastern United States. Clean hydropower provides 21% of the state’s energy generation, with another 8% from wind capacity and 5% from solar capacity.

Long Island municipalities will receive more than $17 million in state money for water quality projects aimed at improving sewer systems, reducing nitrogen pollution and enhancing storm resiliency, according to state officials. 

ALBANY — Because of better-than-anticipated tax revenue, Gov.

Riverhead Town officials voted Tuesday to remove a 1,000-foot buffer between recreational cannabis shops and residences in the town’s major commercial corridors.