Last weekend’s transformer fire and resulting oil spill are the latest wakeup call about the multitude of unacceptable dangers at the Indian Point nuclear plant. We spoke with Andrew Whitman on Fios1 “NewsBreakers” about the spill and the bigger picture. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player […]
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Courtesy: Union of Concerned Scientists
New Yorkers have a unique opportunity to support sustainable energy in our state – and we all need to pay attention and speak up. The state-led initiative Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), seeks to address the immense challenges facing New York State’s energy system, maintain the state’s leadership on climate policy and provide affordable energy to the public. Aiming to radically alter the trajectory of New York’s energy delivery system, the initiative emerged in late 2014 and is planned throughout 2015.
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Carol grabs a sample at
Newburgh's public boat launch. A couple fishermen were looking on, curiously, and when I called in a missing pollution discharge public notification sign that was supposed to be placed at one of the city's combined sewer outfalls, I learned from the city that all the signs are being improved and replaced. One improvement: They'll face both the shore and the water. Newburgh has excellent leadership when it comes to water issues. Nice job, Newburgh.
By the time I boarded the Riverkeeper patrol boat in Garrison around 9 a.m. on May 13, Capt. John Lipscomb and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory research assistant Carol Knudson had already traveled from Ossining and gathered three water samples from Peekskill, Annsville Creek and Fort […]
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Passing Indian Point this morning at 0800 – no sheen or odor observed. We patrolled the same areas we visited and documented on Sunday morning after the transformer explosion and spill at the nuclear plant. There was a strong southwest wind yesterday veering to northwest […]
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(Photo: Sean Dixon)
We spotted this egret Tuesday during our patrol along Newtown Creek. When I see wildlife on the creek, it gives me hope. Nature is waiting for us to do the right thing – If we clean up the creek, wildlife is going to rush back. […]
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Thanks to the great effort of more than 2,000 volunteers and dozens of community partners, here’s a recap of the work done on Friday and Saturday, in one hundred locations spanning hundreds of miles of shoreline from Brooklyn to Troy.
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CR: Jennifer Willis
The final rule from the U.S. Department of Transportation on crude oil trains— more than two years in the making — fails to address critical safety risks associated with the crude oil crisis. This rule will place communities nationwide in harm’s way for nearly a decade to come. The latest regulations continue a disturbing trend — pitting local communities against the multi-billion dollar oil & gas lobby.
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120 people attended the Future of the Wallkill River event in April 2015 at SUNY New Paltz. (Photo by Jeremy Cherson/Riverkeeper)
A new citizens movement is taking shape to give voice to the Wallkill River. Momentum is coming from Riverkeeper’s ongoing community science water quality monitoring project, and the debate in New Paltz about whether the Wallkill could or should be treated to supply the community […]
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We were out Saturday for a patrol of the Tappan Zee area and Sparkill Creek – including water sampling with our community partners on the Sparkill and Pocantico. As always, we had a look at the resident Osprey couple which nests on this light every […]
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In May 2014, a kayaker sent this image of a tug/barge carrying North Dakota crude oil and a Bald Eagle fishing. The contrast is stunning and poignant. Both are users of the River. One is sustainable, the other is not. One presents a huge risk, […]
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