Regional News > Bloomberg Aims To Take Gulp Out Of Sugary Drinks With Ban On Big Ones (NY Now) Bloomberg Caps Big Soda, Without Albany, Washington Or The Council (Capital Confidential) New York’s Supersized Soda Ban Doesn’t Reach Big Gulp (Treehugger) Parents Protest City’s Slow Response To Toxic Chemicals Found In Lightbulbs At Bronx School (NY Daily News) NYC Report ... Read More »
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens and New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland, along with Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, announced that they have unanimously agreed to a one-year extension of the current water-management agreement for the Delaware River reservoirs. The agreement will continue to protect fisheries habitat in the Delaware ... Read More »
June 14 Informational Meeting Scheduled for Community to Learn More Dredging and capping of contaminated sediments in Onondaga Lake is set to begin this summer, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced at an event in Syracuse today. The $451 million Superfund remediation project has undergone five years of design and engineering, with preparation for ... Read More »
Public Comment Period Runs Through July 16 Changes to the regulations governing the harvest of river herring are being proposed to reduce fishing mortality and sustain New York populations, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced today. River herring (alewife and blueback herring) are anadromous fish that spend most of their life in the ocean but return to their native ... Read More »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $970,000 to New York City and Ogdensburg, New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and reuse contaminated properties. Brownfields are properties at which moderate contamination threaten environmental quality and public health and can ... Read More »
Last week, Joseph Martens, head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, the agency in charge or approving, regulating or banning hydrofracking in New York, said that he has seen nothing to suggest that fracking should be banned.[1] You’ve got to be kidding me. We’ve seen plenty of reasons. How about explosions at processing sites in Pennsylvania and Texas?[2] What about ... Read More »
Just today we released a bi-partisan poll which found that an overwhelming majority of New York voters – of all political parties and from all regions of the state – support proposals to increase the use of local solar power. 81% of New York voters support the New York Solar Jobs Act. How often can you get 81 out of 100 ... Read More »
Last week, S. 3239, federal legislation to reform the egg industry and ban barren battery cages, was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., with a bipartisan group of original cosponsors. This bill (identical to H.R. 3798 introduced earlier in the House) will lead to major improvements in the treatment of 280 million hens involved in U.S. ... Read More »
Last year with your support, we successfully persuaded the National Marine Fisheries Service to consider listing alewife and blueback herring (collectively known as river herring) as “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act. These small but important fish species are cultural icons and pillars of Atlantic coastal ecosystems. But vast numbers are caught as unregulated catch by industrial fisheries that ... Read More »
Right now we have the opportunity to win lifesaving protections for 82 corals under the Endangered Species Act. In response to a Center for Biological Diversity petition, the government is taking comments before deciding to list them as either threatened or endangered. The Center’s petition also prompted a comprehensive status review of the corals that cast a dim outlook for ... Read More »
Regional News > Can Fungi Clean Up The Newtown Creek Superfund Site? They’re Giving It A Try (MSNBC) Poll: NYers Overwhelmingly Want More Solar (NYLCV) NRC Commissioner Meets With Both Sides Of The Indian Point Issue (Mid Hudson News) NRC Commissioner Visits Indian Point (YNN) Expansion Of DEP’s Award-Winning Bluebelts Underway In Queens (NYC DEP) Bike Share, Parking Take Center ... Read More »
The 2012 Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program is now open for applications. The program was created through a partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. The nonprofit organization has provided a $500,000 grant to the program, which will award $25,000 grants to organizations that develop affordable and sustainable housing through the USGBC’s ... Read More »
Regional News > Riverkeeper Predicts Indian Point License Will Not Be Renewed (Mid Hudson News) NY Veterinarian Accused Of Dumping 35 Euthanized Pets Along Highway (Washington Post) Brooklyn Lawmaker Takes On City Over Trash Site (NY Post) Wyckoff Hospital Farmers’ Market Shot Down By City Over Congestion Concerns City To Launch New ‘Mini MBA Program’ To Boost BioTech UWS Senior ... Read More »
The legislative session in Albany, NY is drawing to a close and New York’s State Senators have failed to pass a single piece of legislation to protect the public from irresponsible gas fracking. On Wednesday, May 30, join us by rallying and/or making phone calls demanding that the Senate Republican Majority pass legislation to require the state to conduct a ... Read More »
GrowNYC is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Recycling Champions Program (RCP) from NYC public schools! RCP is a free program available to K-12 schools in all five boroughs that helps to launch model, school-wide recycling programs. It’s conducted in partnership with the NYC Department of Education Division of School Facilities and Office of Sustainability, and the NYC Department of ... Read More »
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