Video from Flushing Bay just off Big Rock Beach showed the first batch of derelict boats being pulled from the water using new federal funding.
There are growing concerns about toxic pollution at a town on Long Island after large chemical drums were dug up at Bethpage Community Park.
The Biden administration announced new automobile emissions standards that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles.
The new rule will take effect on April 27, and will affect about 130 businesses.
The analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national environmental advocacy group, focused on warehouse and census data and found about three million New Yorkers live within a half-mile of large warehouses.
Dust samples from the attics of 12 homes in Bethpage, Levittown, and Plainview tested positive for an airborne, cancer-causing chemical, according to environmental experts.