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New state website tracks $4.2B environmental bond spending

By Gwendolyn Craig

Interactive map shows projects funded by bond act and what funds are still available.

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Adirondacks absent from 1st round of $4B bond act awards

By Gwendolyn Craig

Money from a $4.2 billion environmental bond act voters passed last fall is starting to flow, but so far, not to the Adirondacks.

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2022 Explored: New York’s environmental bond acts

By Gwendolyn Craig

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.

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1996 Bond Act lookback: Adirondack land conservation

By Gwendolyn Craig

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

By Gwendolyn Craig

New York voters will decide on unprecedented state debt for environmental projects, something they have not been asked to do in 26 years.

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Digging for quarter-century records

By Gwendolyn Craig

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.

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