GUEST OPINION

How Monroe County’s housing incentives undermine its climate policy

By GINNY MAIER | June 9, 2026

At the same time that the county is providing climate action funds to the city of Rochester, towns, and villages, it is granting subsidies to housing projects that will likely lock in fossil fuel emissions for decades to come.

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NYCC still wants to sterilize Erie Canal embankments

By GINNY MAIER | December 21, 2022

Instead of listening to the public outcry, the Canal Corporation’s final plan calls for removing natural vegetation from the embankment, replacing it with a manicured industrial landscape.