Volunteers at the 2013 Riverkeeper Sweep at Hudson River Park in New York City. (Photo by Abigail Jones / Riverkeeper)
If you are interested in organizing a shoreline cleanup or other service project for the 2014 Riverkeeper Sweep, now is the time to tell us!
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In response to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent “waste confidence” EIS, Mark Leyse, a nuclear safety analyst wrote a report outlining numerous deficiencies with the NRC’s computer simulations of spent fuel pool fires.
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Albany is emerging as a critical hub of a dangerous crude oil "virtual pipeline" snaking from U.S. and Canadian oil fields to refineries on the coasts, and this video tells part of the story.
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Pete Seeger [Copyright Poughkeepsie Journal]
Pete Seeger has left us, but I still hear his voice clear as day. We at Riverkeeper mourn the man and offer our hearts to his family and friends. And, we promise to carry on his work and make the most of the gifts he […]
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NY faces a $36 Billion backlog in spending for clean water infrastructure
With only three days until Governor Cuomo releases his 2014 budget plan, the Albany Times Union has this advice: Invest in clean water, Governor. Riverkeeper couldn’t agree more. The Governor’s own environmental agency calls our failure to invest adequately in water infrastructure a “gathering storm” […]
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Rowers in the Hudson at the Albany waterfront
Planning a Swimmable River for the Capital District The NY State DEC just released a plan for the Capital District that targets swimmable, fishable water quality for the ‘Albany Pool’ section of the Hudson by 2028, if not sooner. This is very welcome news to […]
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Photo courtesy of the Hastings Historical Society
Former site of worst concentration of PCBs on the Hudson to be remediated New York State DEC announced it has reached an agreement with the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), formerly Anaconda Wire & Cable, on a consent order to begin cleaning up contaminated sediment at […]
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Riverkeeper – along with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) – recently filed a friend of the court (amicus curiae or amicus) brief in support of the lower court’s decision in a case brought by Sierra Club and others challenging a municipality’s agreement to allow Shell to withdraw up to 1.5 million gallons of public water per day in New York for use in Pennsylvania fracking operations.
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Photo by James D'Addio
Fix the broken window, and people take more pride in their neighborhood, forcing the nefarious elements out. That’s the idea. Polluters tend to pollute where there's already pollution. The formula for stopping pollution is to clean up the mess—and then keep close watch.
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1,400: Volunteers who removed more than 38 tons of shoreline trash in a single day during the 2013 Riverkeeper Sweep, our 2nd annual day of service for the river...
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