{"id":51361,"date":"2021-10-18T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51361"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:19:32","slug":"new-york-coalition-calls-for-ban-on-mining-at-dirty-fossil-fuel-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/new-york-coalition-calls-for-ban-on-mining-at-dirty-fossil-fuel-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"New York coalition calls for ban on mining at &#8216;dirty&#8217; fossil-fuel plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of businesses, organisations and labour groups in New York state sent authorities a <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/cryptominingmoratoriumletter_governorhochul10_13_2021.pdf\">letter<\/a> requesting that permits be denied to upgrade fossil-fuel-fired power plants into centres for cryptocurrency mining.<\/p>\n<p>The letter to Governor Kathy Hochul expresses concern about the environmental impact of digital-asset mining.<\/p>\n<p>Requests to upgrade the facilities came from the operators Greenidge Generation and Fortistar North Tonawanda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Expansion of mining in New York could undermine the state&#8217;s climate goals established in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Approval would jeopardise the state&#8217;s progress toward meeting its greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments.&#8221;<\/em>, according to the letter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in July, residents of New York state <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/new-york-residents-accuse-greenidge-generation-of-environmental-violations\">accused<\/a> Greenidge Generation of environmental violations.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Senator Ted Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/u-s-senator-proposes-using-natural-gas-for-bitcoin-mining\">proposed<\/a> using energy produced from oil and gas extraction to mine the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of businesses, organisations and labour groups in New York state sent authorities a letter asking them to deny permits to upgrade fossil-fuel-fired power plants into cryptocurrency mining centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1259,1306,748],"class_list":["post-51361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ecology","tag-mining-ban","tag-new-york"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"6","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51363,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51361\/revisions\/51363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}