"Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves." www.theguardian.com/business/ng-... by Jillian Ambrose and @dpcarrington.bsky.social 🔌💡

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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“The ability to have folks pick up the phone, that’s huge,” Adams said. “Part of it is, ‘OK, yes we want to see the product.’ But then another part of it is, ‘We never got a chance to say, thank you.’’” therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

Eric Adams’ new job: real estate’s pitchman

The former mayor talks with The Real Deal’s Amir Korangy on Mamdani, the indictment and what he’s selling to the state of Nigeria.

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

ICE and Border Patrol agents have arrested at least six people in a kind of slow-motion raid that has drawn little outcry but upended life for immigrants who work in this corner of western New York, where the Rochester suburbs give way to farmland.

Immigration Agents Are Picking Off These Tomato Plant Workers

ICE and Border Patrol are stalking a Sungrow greenhouse and packing facility 20 miles outside of Rochester, prompting workers to flee.

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Amazon supplied almost all the funding for a campaign presented as a coalition of New York workers, small businesses, and national carriers. The company's donations are by far the largest it has ever reported making to a lobbying effort in the state.

Amazon Bankrolled $5M Campaign Against NYC Delivery Bill

Amazon supplied almost all the funding for a campaign presented as a coalition of New York City workers, small businesses, and national carriers.

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Paraquat — a herbicide commonly used to kill broadleaf weeds and grasses in New York and across the US — is banned in more than 70 countries. In an upstate town one resident calls "Parkinson's Valley," farmers are demanding that New York follow suit.

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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The cooling safety net that provides free air conditioners to New Yorkers across the state ran out of funding in June, before summer officially started and ahead of the state’s hottest months. It’s the earliest the money has ever run out.

Extreme Heat Is Rising. New York’s Cooling Aid Isn’t.

New York’s free air conditioner program ran out of funding before summer, even as extreme heat becomes a deadlier threat.

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The Knights Inn, profiled by New York Focus and ProPublica last year, received repeated health and safety complaints for years.

Six People Die at Motel That Houses Broome County’s Homeless

Six people, including three kids, died in a fire at the Knights Inn​, where Broome County places homeless families despite complaints and violations.

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NYC Rent Guidelines Board approves 2-year rent freeze, fulfilling Mamdani campaign pledge gothamist.com/news/nyc-ren...

NYC Rent Guidelines Board approves 2-year rent freeze, fulfilling Mamdani campaign pledge

About 1 million rent-stabilized apartments will be shielded from rent increases for the next two years after the historic vote.

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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

In Tuesday's New York primary elections, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America racked up victories despite an enormous wave of super PAC spending. The DSA is now poised to pick up at least six seats in the state legislature in November.

NY Primary Results: DSA Set to Pick Up 6+ Seats in Albany

The DSA made gains in New York despite super PACs spending $9.6 million in state legislative races — nearly five times the total from 2024.

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I know at least one person already who is allergic to red meat from one of these ticks. They’re thriving on Long Island

Yale Climate Connections@climateconnections.bsky.social · last mo.

Traditionally found in the South, the lone star tick is moving into the Northeast as the climate warms – and causing people there to develop an allergy to red meat.

Wow - gas generation in California Jan-May 2026 was down 60% from its level in the same period of 2024, due to solar, batteries, imports from hydro and wind plants. This was despite a 7% increase in power demand. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Feds just cited the phrase “we must become ungovernable” as evidence that Minnesota activists being charged are dangerous.

NEW: A lobbyist who has been romantically linked to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie led a rally opposing plastic packaging legislation a week before the speaker declined to bring it to a vote. nysfocus.com/2026/06/11/h...

NY Plastics Bill Died After Blitz by Lobbyists with Ties to Heastie

A lobbyist who has been romantically linked to Heastie led a rally opposing the legislation a week before the speaker declined to bring it to a vote.

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NEW: Across more than 4,400 pages, lawmakers passed a $269 billion budget that funded major programs serving New Yorkers across the state. New York Focus breaks down the process, outcomes, and what it means for you in The Haggle. nysfocus.com/2026/06/09/n...

The Haggle

In May, state lawmakers passed a $269 billion budget after haggling for months over thousands of line items and policies affecting New Yorkers.

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During one day of the heat wave this week, 29 people in NYC went to the ER with heat-related illnesses when the temp hit 97 degrees. That's the most ER visits on a single day in May since 2022, according to health department data.

Thanks to the support of our readers, New York Focus is growing! We're thrilled to welcome Kyle Constable as director of growth and Amudalat Ajasa as a climate reporter. nysfocus.com/2026/05/01/n...

New York Focus Adds Director of Growth and Climate Reporter

Thanks to the support of our readers, New York Focus is growing!

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A new report finds JPMorganChase asked an agency in Rockland Co. for $77 mil in tax breaks to expand a data center in NYS. In exchange, the financial giant promised to create a job. One job. @colinreports.bsky.social of @nysfocus.com spoke w/ @michael-hill.bsky.social. www.wnyc.org/story/report...

Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

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America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border. In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job. My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

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NEW: In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, NY promises to create exactly one permanent job. The subsidy is the largest of its kind, per job, in the country.

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job

No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

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Rockland County IDA approved $77M in tax subsidies for a JP Morgan data center expansion in Orangetown that creates 1 full-time job — by far the largest subsidy for a single job in history. See our in-depth analysis, as covered in @nysfocus.com today: buff.ly/qkVOhCj

NY Taxpayers Spend $77M for One JP Morgan Data Center Job; By Far Largest Subsidy Per Job in History - Reinvent Albany

NY Taxpayers Spend $77M for One JP Morgan Data Center Job; By Far Largest Subsidy Per Job in History Rockland County IDA’s subsidy deal for the JPMC II data center expansion in Orangetown, includes…

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"JPMorganChase applied to the IDA ... in January 2024, providing only vague justification of why the nation’s largest bank needed subsidies to expand on its existing site, 25 miles from its brand-new global headquarters in Midtown Manhattan ... it got the exact tax break it requested."

Colin Kinniburgh@colinreports.bsky.social · 4mo ago

America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border. In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job. My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...

this is more than Tesla got for its car factory in Austin which employs 16,000+ people

Colin Kinniburgh@colinreports.bsky.social · 4mo ago

America’s largest bank is expanding its data center in Orangeburg, NY, near the New Jersey border. In exchange for $77 million in tax breaks from the state and county, the bank promises to create exactly one permanent job. My story in @nysfocus.com: nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...