Blog articles by Riverkeeper staff and supporters

Here is another sneak peek from the upcoming 2011 version of Fractured Communities A leaked New York State Department of Transportation (“DOT”) report suggests that New York is not ready for the 1.5 million additional heavy truck trips each year that could result from shale […] More

Riverkeeper and our science partners from Lamont Doherty and Queens College sampled the affected area from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Battery on Thursday, 7/21, Friday, 7/22, and Monday, 7/25. Sampling took place in response to a fire and subsequent shutdown of the North […] More

Range Resources (“Range”) has filed a countersuit against a family that sued Range for alleged methane contamination of their water, claiming that the family “conspired to produce misleading test results to get the EPA involved in the case.”[1] Parker County, Texas, residents Steven and Shlya […] More

A catastrophic fire at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant on the upper westside of Manhattan last Wednesday, July 20th, led to a temporary plant shutdown and the dumping of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson and Harlem Rivers. The untreated sewage […] More

DEC’s Revised Draft Environmental Review Shows Improvement, But Serious Gaps On July 8, 2011, Governor Cuomo’s Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) released its preliminary revised draft environmental review on proposed new hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) (the “Preliminary Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement” or “revised […] More

Our friend, Greg Porteus, pilot and foundation president of Launch 5, just sent us these great photos from the 8 Bridges Swim. Thank you again to the event organizers for including us in this incredible event, and congrats on completing the swim! Jumping in! Splash! […] More

by Kyle Rabin and Peter Hanlon 10 Things to Know about Power Plant Water Use: Some things get better with age. Not power plants. The nation’s older power plants that still rely on antiquated and damaging once-through cooling systems have a huge thirst for water. […] More

Last Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a segment by Leslie Stahl discussing the potential economic positives and the environmental perils of fracking.  The piece features contrasting interviews of Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy, the largest independent gas producer in the country, and Michael Brune, […] More

Yesterday we had the privilege of bringing several journalists out on the river to cover the 8 Bridges Swim. The 8 Bridges Swim is running from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge near Catskill to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, covering 120 miles of […] More