New York Environmental News: August 21, 2012

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Regional News >

NYC Kids Study Shows Common Insecticide May Harm Boys’ Brains More Than Girls
(Scientific American)

Gov. Cuomo’s Fracking Plan For New York: Politics Trumps Science
(Climate Connections)

NY’s 22nd District Congressional Candidate Dan Lamb Takes On Fracking
(Huffington Post)

More Than 120 Towns Have Enacted Bans Or Moratoriums That Prohibit Fracking In NY
(Fracktracker)

Area Opponents Vow Action If Fracking OK’d
(Daily Star)

Pipeline Carrying Hydrofracked Gas Planned For the 8th C.D. Which Stretches From Fort Greene To South Queens
(Prospect Heights Patch)

Unwelcoming Spectra To NYC
(Socialist Worker Online)

City’s $70 Million Plan To Alleviate Flooding
(New York Daily News)

Niagara Falls Reporter Receives Photos Of Illegal Frack Water
(Niagara Falls Reporter)

Regional Health Care Systems To Study Health Impact Of Marcellus Shale Drilling
Yogurt Industry, Fracking Don’t Mix
(Press Connects)

New York Turns Its Grossest Problem Into A Resource
(Fast Company)

New York: Turning Sewage Into Savings
(Smart Planet)

USGS Says East Coast Is A ‘Hot Spot’ for Climate Change And Rising Sea Levels
(Inhabitat)

Poll: NY Voters Like Obamacare, Split (Still) On Fracking
Watervliet Arsenal Cleanup Deemed Done
(Albany Times Union)

N.Y. Transportation Board Backs Cuomo’s Tappan Zee Bridge
(Bloomberg)

Tappan Zee Span Gets New Push
City’s Count Finds Rise In Cycling Commuters
(Wall Street Journal)

Group Examines Whether Soil In Urban Farms In Bed-Stuy And Other Communities Is Safe
(Bed Stuy Patch)

Vacant Land In Cities Could Provide Important Social And Ecological Benefits
(The Nature of Cities)

NYSERDA Assists American Biogas Conditioning With Launch Of Biogas-To-Power Equipment
(NYSERDA)

City Food Banks Face Federal Funding Shortage
(NY 1)

Mayor Bloomberg Announces Indycar Engine Design Company To Open On Former Brownfield Site Remediated By The New York City Brownfield Cleanup Program
(Mayor Bloomberg’s Press Office)

Williamsburg Gets Race Car Design Company On Site Of Formerly Polluted Land
(Gothamist)

Most New Yorkers Say Bike Lanes Are A Good Idea
(New York Times)

Huge Second Avenue Subway Blasts Rock And Rattle Upper East Side
Garbage Piles Up On West Side Highway Amid Funding Fight
(DNA Info)

DEC: Interested In Hunting? Sign Up Now For A Hunter Safety Course
DEC Seeks Public Input On Draft Management Plan For 14 Chautauqua County State Forests
(NY DEC)

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