Several watchdogs have reported a mysterious white chalky material covering the rocks and bank along the Croton River.
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March 22, 2013 marked the 20th Anniversary of World Water Day, created by the U.N. General Assembly in 1993 as an international day to celebrate and raise awareness about fresh water. Riverkeeper and members of the HSBC Water Programme, which recently awarded a major grant […]
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Over the course of several months in 2010, Riverkeeper and a citizen watchdog documented torrents of raw sewage cascading out of a sewer manhole and bubbling through the slats of the public walkway that runs above it and reported them to local and state officials, the press and the public.
Three years after Riverkeeper filed a Notice of Intent to Sue, the City of Beacon reached an agreement with the Attorney General’s office to fix ongoing leaks in their municipal sewage system.
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Middlefield Neighbors, a grassroots anti-fracking group from the small town of Middlefield, NY demonstrate their opposition to fracking. Photo via Flickr 350.org
Oral argument in the Dryden and Middlefield municipal fracking ban cases was heard yesterday, March 21, 2013, at the Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, in Albany.
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New York has a unique opportunity to learn from the unfortunate experiences of others in states that decided to move forward with fracking before understanding what the health and human costs would be.
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General Electric agrees to revisit scope of PCB Cleanup on Upper Hudson.
Riverkeeper commends the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for of PCBs under a 2002 agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Ossining, NY – March 7, 2013 – Yesterday afternoon, the New York State Assembly passed a moratorium on issuing fracking permits until May 15, 2012 in legislation that also requires the state to undertake a comprehensive health impact assessment to be completed no later than […]
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The Raging Grannies of Oregon performing a saterical protest song
There is no better example of an aging, outdated, unsafe, environmentally destructive nuclear power plant than Indian Point. And no shortage of effort has been expended by Riverkeeper’s tireless advocates in order to see that the plant is shutdown for good.
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Hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale produces millions of gallons of radioactive waste fluid, which is currently allowed to be spread on roads in 16 counties in New York State and which could be introduced into Putnam County, endangering the health and safety of Putnam […]
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Years from now, New Yorkers will be glad Governor Cuomo decided to take a hard look at fracking instead of rushing to embrace this dangerous new form of drilling before its health and environmental impacts were fully understood.
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