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Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC (Constitution) has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to build a 124 mile, 30 inch natural gas pipeline – the Constitution Pipeline – from Susquehanna County, PA to Schoharie County, NY, crossing a portion of the Hudson River […]
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Last week, the Albany Times Union printed an in-depth investigative story that shows just how underhanded GE has acted regarding its discharge of millions of pounds of toxic PCBs in the Hudson River, including covering up its discharge and the negative health effects of PCBs.
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The mouth of the Hutchinson River. Photo by Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York City Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a meeting to hear from residents about a critical issue: The development of a CSO Long Term Control Plan to reduce the flow of untreated sewage and stormwater that pollutes the river during rainstorms.
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Last month, a tank barge collided with a towboat on the Mississippi River, spilling some 31,500 gallons of light Bakken crude into the water and prompting officials to close a 65-mile stretch of river – roughly the distance between New York City and Newburgh/Beacon along […]
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Millions of gallons of crude oil are being moved through the Hudson Valley by barge, ship and train. Riverkeeper has launched a campaign to protect the river and our communities from crude oil spills that have had a destructive impact along the route of this […]
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InsideClimate News, The Center for Public Integrity and The Weather Channel / Image: Lynn Buehring (Credit: Lance Rosenfield/Prime)
The Weather Channel – along with Inside Climate News and The Center for Public Integrity – recently unveiled the results of an eight month investigation into emissions of air pollutants and related health impacts from oil and gas drilling using of high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing […]
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The recent massive increase in crude oil shipments on and along the Hudson River by rail, ship and barge poses an unacceptable triple threat to the many significant or protected marine species that rely on miles of unique and irreplaceable habitat. Because the river is […]
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Hundreds of Albany residents attended a public meeting earlier this month to voice their outrage over the city’s growing place at the center of a new crude oil-by-rail “virtual pipeline” – a process that until now has been subject to virtually no public scrutiny. Every […]
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Today’s freight train derailment in Kingston underscores the point: A new “virtual pipeline” is carrying crude oil straight through the Hudson Valley and bringing with it a whole new level of risk to our safety and our environment. We’ve had enough warnings already. Take action […]
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As the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, see this 6-minute highlight video from an October 2013 conference about the lessons for New York and the Indian Point power plant. “There will be ways that Mother Nature, that human mistakes and errors, will […]
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