A landmark agreement between the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation and the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection has green-lighted $3.8 billion in funding over the next 18 years to address combined-sewer overflows, or CSOs.

As New York intensifies its debate over whether to employ hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover shale-gas deposits in the Marcellus shale formation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sticking to his pledge to "let the science and the facts" determine if the state' should lift a two-year moratorium on fracking.