New York Environmental News: August 9, 2012

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Governor Cuomo Announces $107 Million Available Through NY-Sun Inititiative For Large Solar Power Installations
Governor Cuomo Announces State Seeking Proposals For Work On 8 NY Works Flood Control Projects
(Governor Cuomo’s Press Office)

Series Of Test Results At TCI Site And In The Surrounding Community Indicate No Threat To Public Health
2012-13 Sporting Licenses Available Beginning August 13, 2012
(NY DEC)

Westchester County Dept. of Health Warns Public To Avoid Contact With Hudson River From Croton Point Park And All Points South Due To Planned Sewage Discharges
(Pleasantville Patch)

Riverkeeper Responds To Westchester County Raw Sewage Release
(Riverkeeper)

46 NY County Mosquitoes, Dead Birds Test Positive For West Nile Virus
(York Daily Record)

Coalition Pushes Cuomo, Others, On Greenhouse-Gas Cap
(Politics on the Hudson)

Standing at Keuka Lake, Gillibrand To Announce Comprehensive Plan To Stop Spread of Invasive Species, Prevent Future Invasive Species
(Senator Gillibrand’s Press Office)

New Report Shows That NYC’s Biggest Buildings Are The Key to Solving Its Biggest Greenhouse Gas Issues
(Inhabitat)

Details Emerge On Cuomo’s Plan To Allow Limited Fracking In New York
(The Ithaca Independent)

How Some Upstate Environmentalists Came To Embrace Fracking
(Capital New York)

Caton, NY Town Board Votes To Stay Neutral On Gas Drilling
(WETMTV)

In It To Win It, Says Founder Of Proposed Staten Island Green Charter School
(SI Live)

Brooklyn Block In Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Honored In Annual Competition Of The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
(New York Times)

Making Connections: Planning For Green Infrastructure In The Lower East Side’sTwo Bridges
Field Trip: Gerritsen Beach And Marine Park, Brooklyn
(Urban Omnibus)

Jay Street Is The Scariest Bike Lane In Brooklyn, Our Readers Say
(BK Paper)

NYC Water Agency Upgrades Hudson Valley Road
(WRGB)

Verdant Victor Announced In Brooklyn’s Greenest Block Battle
(NY Observer)

New York’s Bicycle Corpses, Curated As Art
(Good Magazine)

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