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For Labor Day we thought we’d take you for a deeper plunge into one of our summer reading recommendations, The Nature of New York: An Environmental…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wxxi/local-wxxi-980735.mp3To date, everything about the state’s new regional economic development…

It's the Fourth of July weekend, and many of you are loading up your iPod to get you to the beach/cabin/lake.But if you're stuck at home - or worse -…

New York has yet to lift its temporary moratorium on the most controversial method of natural gas drilling - horizontal hydraulic fracturing (or…

You have a holiday weekend ahead. And what better thing to do with your time off than curl up with some nice fat economics tomes?Wait, don't click away -…

Recently a reader sent us what seems like a fairly straight-forward question:Unfortunately, in the Marcellus Shale, there are no simple answers. We ran…

Kodak has its own power plant.It's part of the labyrinthine Eastman Business Park, located here, about four miles northwest of downtown Rochester.It runs…

As hydrofracking lands back on the front page, a question about testing water for contamination landed in the Innovation Trail inbox. One of our readers…