{"id":18095,"date":"2025-10-27T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:19:07","slug":"nypirg-new-yorkers-have-right-to-clean-air-water-and-healthy-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18095\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPIRG: New Yorkers have right to clean air, water and healthy environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MID-HUDSON \u2013 New Yorkers should not have to wait for lower cost energy sources to make heating and cooling their homes, New York Public Interest Research Group Senior Environmental Program Coordinator Eric Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood said \u201cenergy hogs\u201d like crypto and AI are causing more demand for energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fossil fuel industry is perpetuating the myth that the federal permitting process is a major obstacle to build energy efficient infrastructure, and the reality is they just need to upgrade our transmission systems or grid and ultimately make our homes more efficient and weatherized and stop wasting so much energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood said while renewable energy is now more affordable that fossil fuels, the solution is not to simply thrown away essential environmental protections or produce more so-called \u201ctraditional energy sources\u201d like coal, oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MID-HUDSON \u2013 New Yorkers should not have to wait for lower cost energy sources to make heating and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,12496,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-18095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypirg","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}