Now is the time to speak up and help ensure that its review of potential alternatives to damaging a precious local resource, the Lower Esopus Creek, is performed correctly and completely. Deadline is July 8.
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Riverkeeper’s Water Quality Team has an “office” meeting – on the water – during Day 2 of a boat patrol on Friday from New York Harbor to Albany. Capt. John Lipscomb looks on as water quality advocate Dan Shapley looks over his notes. The team […]
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In this video interview with The Journal News, Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay and Hudson River Program Director Phillip Musegaas detail the many reasons why Indian Point – de facto nuclear waste dump on the Hudson – should be shut down. “Whatever you may think of […]
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Riverkeeper Patrol hosted three senior staff of Metro North Railroad on May 27th to get a unique look at the company’s commuter rail infrastructure along the Hudson. As the east shore’s biggest property owner, the railroad’s efforts to keep the shoreline clean and maintain its […]
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With only three weeks remaining in this year’s legislative session, time is running out for the New York Legislature to take action on fracking in 2014. Unfortunately, New Yorkers have seen this show before. Help us carry the message that this year must be different: […]
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Riverkeeper’s Captain John Lipscomb has a special perspective on the Hudson River, logging about 6,000 nautical miles a year in the Riverkeeper patrol boat. In this video interview at Shattemuc Yacht Club in Ossining, he describes the importance of seeing not just the scenery of […]
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When a group of landowners successfully sued over a local wetlands law, there was much at stake. New Paltz, like other communities across New York, wanted to protect vital wetland areas that provide habitats, filter pollution and absorb water in a form of flood control. […]
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One of Riverkeeper’s most far-reaching victories of the year – thanks to our legal partners at Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic – is the defeat of a Clean Water Act exemption that had allowed the polluting of pristine waters by the transfer of water from one […]
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Fishing over the “Big C” – the largest Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) in the Capital District – it rained hard one hour before I took this photo.
The data from Riverkeeper's first Hudson River sampling run of 2014 is in, and almost all the sites we sampled from May 12-15 passed Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for safe swimming.
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Justin Mikulka is an independent filmmaker who lives in Albany with his family. When the tanker Stena Primorsk ran aground on her maiden voyage carrying North Dakota crude oil from Albany in December 2012 a whole lot of us suddenly became aware of an entirely […]
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