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New York's Environmental Conservation Department denied renewal of Greenidge Generation’s air pollution permits last year. The judge upheld that the company's cryptocurrency operation is inconsistent with the state’s climate law. Now, an administrative law judge is allowing Greenidge’s appeal to move forward, but is narrowing the arguments the company can make.

Greenidge Generation is leasing a majority of its miners to another company in order to reduce its debt burden.

The Seneca Lake power plant and Bitcoin mining facility is installing wedge wire screens on its intake pipe, a complaint of environmental activists.

Greenidge Generation is attempting to restructure millions of dollars in debt in exchange for cryptocurrency mining capacity at its facilities.

The DEC maintained its previous position that the facility did not comply with New York’s statutory climate goals.

Environmental activists call the move "political."

The New York senator acknowledged the effort to implement a moratorium on some cryptocurrency mining in New York.

The report compares the legal process for implementing a moratorium to the one that was used to temporarily halt high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in 2010.

Williams said he’s not against cryptocurrency mining altogether, but wants companies to reevaluate their mining process so it doesn’t use as much electricity.

A debate over cryptocurrency mining on Seneca Lake turned into a broader test of the state’s climate law. That test is likely to come to a head in 2022.