Adirondacks absent from 1st round of $4B bond act awards
Money from a $4.2 billion environmental bond act voters passed last fall is starting to flow, but so far, not to the Adirondacks.
1996 environmental bond act
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New state website tracks $4.2B environmental bond spending
Interactive map shows projects funded by bond act and what funds are still available.
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2022 Explored: New York’s environmental bond acts
Nearly 60% of New York voters authorized the state to borrow $4.2 billion for an environmental bond act, the first such act since 1996.
1996 Bond Act lookback: Adirondack land conservation
How $150 million from the 1996 Environmental Bond Act was used for open space and farmland protection
With an environmental bond act before voters, a look back to 1996
New York voters will decide on unprecedented state debt for environmental projects, something they have not been asked to do in 26 years.
Digging for quarter-century records
The first in a two-part story on how public officials and the governor used funding from the last environmental bond act authorized in 1996.