Center for Urban Environmental Reform Tackles Subway Noise at PS 85 in Queens
Professor Rebecca Bratspies and student fellows with CUNY Law’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) have been working closely with parents at PS85 in Astoria, Queens, to address noise from nearby subway tracks that is affecting…
Professor Bratspies Lecturing on The Human Right to a Healthy Environment
The 2014 Santa Clara Journal of International Law Symposium: “Environment and Human Rights Law” Friday, January 24, and Saturday, January 25, 2014 Williman Room, Benson Center Santa Clara University Hosted by Santa Clara Law, the Santa…
Tales from Our Trash: New York City’s Sanitation Workers, Sustainable Cities, and the Value of Knowledge
We have a problem in New York City: We generate more than 30,000 tons of waste each day. Roughly one third of that waste is household trash, and the daunting task of collecting garbage from New…
Video: Tales From Our Trash
Watch the video of the conversation with Dr. Robin Nagle, author of Picking Up and anthropologist-in-residence with the New York City Department of Sanitation…
Tales from Our Trash: Sanitation Workers, Sustainable Cities, and the Value of Knowledge
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Robin Nagle, author of Picking Up and anthropologist-in-residence with the New York City Department of Sanitation; Commissioner John J. Doherty, NYC Dept. of Sanitation; Mierle Ukeles, artist-in-residence with the…
“The Campaign” in reality this Election Day
The comedy “The Campaign” was not just another hysterical Will Ferrel movie, it was in fact a satire on what American politics are actually like. With Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow playing characters named “the Motch…
The Roaring 20[00]s
All but since its inception, CUER has been involved in working to address issues of noise in New York City, particularly with regards to the effects of elevated subway noise on elementary schools. Noise is an…
The 9th Circuit issues injunction on clearcutting project
On October 22, 2013 the 9th Circuit temporarily blocked a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. The project calls for clear cutting 378 acres and thinning or burning 2,140 acres of forest. The…
Jamaica Bay Symposium: A Reflection on Community Participation
Yesterday I attended a portion of day two of the symposium entitled “Urban Resilience in an Era of Climate Change: Global Input for Local Solutions.” This conference regarded Jamaica Bay embedded between the boroughs of Queens…
Solar power expanding in New York State
Who said New York State can’t be powered by renewable energy? At a time when the state is exploring everything from new natural gas pipelines to building a liquified natural gas port, Owens Corning Corp. flipped the…
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