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The cryptocurrency power plant is mining Bitcoin in record numbers, while an appeal process drags on over a denied environmental permit.

Greenidge Generation, a cryptocurrency farm housed in a natural gas plant, has remained open while it appeals a denied air permit. It now faces questions around its water permit and its potential destruction of aquatic wildlife.

Greenidge Generation, the natural gas-fueled facility, is supposed to close under the decision. But its owners plan to keep operating, as they fight for an appeal.

Two Cornell University researchers showed Monday that much of the review could be conducted in less than a week with free online tools.

Since spring 2020, the Greenidge Generation natural gas plant in Dresden has powered a 24-7 bitcoin mining operation that is endangering the region environmentally, according to some residents.

A Brooklyn man drowned in upstate New York this weekend trying to rescue his dog from a pond.

Phish, which has quietly become the highest-grossing straight edge rock band in America, took over Watkins Glen International raceway this weekend, drawing an estimated 30,000 people for a three day festival. Here's a photo tour.

New Amsterdam Public’s Jill Slater and Robert LaValva have organized a one-day

Slaughterhouses may have mostly disappeared from New York City's municipal landscape, but

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