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Regional News > Environment NY And Riverkeeper Release Report: Indian Point Threatens Drinking Water For New Yorkers (Patch) Organic Farmers Take On Monsanto In Manhattan Courtroom (Examiner) Improving New York’s Proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations (EDF) Columbia Engineers Create Model To Map Energy Use In NYC Buildings (Columbia University) Environmental Groups Win Big Victory For Clean Water In New York State ... Read More »

Green roofs are an effective way to reduce cooling costs in the summer and absorb and retain large amounts of stormwater throughout the year. Green roofs begin with a drainage layer on top of the existing roof followed by special soils and a vegetative layer of growth. The special soil allows for plant growth on the roof without the weight ... Read More »

Congressional Republicans refuse to let the tar sands pipeline die. They keep raising the Keystone XL from the dead — like a zombie — to terrorize America over and over again. Just two weeks after President Obama stood his ground and killed the permit for this environmental nightmare, Republicans on Capitol Hill are now threatening to hold key legislation hostage ... Read More »

New York is rushing the reconstruction of the Tappan Zee Bridge, and we need you to send a message to the Department of Transportation: Slow down, study alternatives and build the right project for the region’s future. The project as proposed fails to adequately consider mass-transit options, fails to consider alternatives that would lessen the impact on Hudson River ecology. ... Read More »

The Humane Society of the United States’ undercover investigators recently documented pigs suffering in horrible ways on factory farms owned by Seaboard Foods and Prestage Farms, two of the nation’s largest pork producers. Investigators found breeding pigs in tiny gestation crates, unable even to turn around for most of their lives. They also found dead pigs in the crates, as ... Read More »

Will your tax dollars pay for an ill-conceived aerial wolf cull in Northeastern Idaho – an unscientific plan to boost game populations that could kill as many as two thirds of the wolves in the Lolo District of the Clearwater National Forest? Tell President Obama to stop aerial wolf killing in Idaho before it starts. Send your message right now. ... Read More »

The Center for Biological Diversity needs your help now to secure a future for biodiversity in America’s national forests. In its final draft National Forest Management Act regulations, the U.S. Forest Service wants to dispense with a requirement that it maintain viable populations of fish and wildlife throughout our 193-million-acre national forest system. Congress enacted the National Forest Management Act ... Read More »

Regional News > City To Expand Recycling Program To Include “Rigid” Plastics  (Daily News) Indian Point: Facts Vs. Myths (Huffington Post) DEP Completes Upgrade Of Connections To New Croton Aqueduct For Three Westchester Communities (DEP) Gross Gowanus Canal: Cleanup Conversations Continue Department Of Environmental Protection Clarifies Fracking E-Mail (UPDATE) (Village Voice) New York’s Fracking Deliberations Inch Along (NY Times) UV ... Read More »

Increases Reliability of Water Supply for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, and Briarcliff Manor Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland today announced the upgrade of existing connections to the New Croton Aqueduct for the Villages of Briarcliff Manor, Tarrytown, and Sleepy Hollow. The New Croton Aqueduct serves as a backup water supply for these villages and the rehabilitation of the shafts and repairs ... Read More »

Some of the biggest polluters in Pennsylvania1 want to construct a massive, 200 foot tall transmission line across the Appalachian Trail and the Delaware Water Gap in order to transmit energy from their dirty coal plants to New Jersey. These beautiful outdoor areas offer some of the best hiking and recreation opportunities in Pennsylvania, but hundreds of acres of forests ... Read More »

Want to Save Up To $700 on Your Energy Bills and Make Your Home Safer and More Comfortable? Most New Yorkers qualify for a free or reduced-cost comprehensive home energy assessment, also referred to as an energy audit, and low-cost financing through Home Performance with ENERGY STAR**. Find out how to participate. Join the thousands of New York homeowners who have made energy ... Read More »

The drinking water of 200,000 Birmingham-area residents is at risk of being contaminated by toxic coal mining wastewater discharges — and the University of Alabama has the power to make sure it doesn’t happen. The University is considering leasing land and minerals to coal mining company Shepherd Bend LLC, which would like to begin operations at a massive 1,773 acre ... Read More »

Regional News > Alison Jenkins, EANY’s Fiscal Policy Program Director Breaks Down Gov. Cuomo’s Budget (Environmental Advocates of NY) DEP Microfiltration Expansion Project In Upstate Wastewater Treatment Plant Will Help Protect Water Quality For 9 Million New Yorkers (DEP) DOT Commissioner McDonald And Executive Director Madison Announce On-Time Completion And Release Of Tappan Zee Bridge Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DOT) ... Read More »

Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland today announced the completion of a $7.4 million project to upgrade a City-owned wastewater treatment plant at Margaretville in Delaware County. Upgrade work began in 2009 and will help protect water quality in the Delaware watershed, which supplies more than half of the city’s daily drinking water needs. With the construction of the expanded state-of-the-art ... Read More »

Regional News > Tappan Zee Plans Flunk New York’s Smart Growth Test (Streets Blog) Riverkeeper Responds To Tappan Zee Bridge Environmental Review (Riverkeeper) $1 Million in DEC Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants Awarded To 24 Organizations Statewide (DEC) In Two Meetings, One Of Them Quite Heated, Neighborhoods Confront The Half-Billion Dollar Gowanus Canal Cleanup (Capital NY) New Wetlands Strategy For ... Read More »