Blog articles by Riverkeeper staff and supporters

Kimberly Garrison and Kimberly Pierce Riverkeeper Legal Interns The golden age of gas may mean the dark ages for the climate, according to a report released last week by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report, “Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas,” which […] More
About a week ago we received a watchdog report from one of our volunteers who lives in Brooklyn.  She reported that there was a cement slurry running into a storm drain from a cement facility near Newtown Creek in East Williamsburg. We forwarded her report […] More
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We’ve had a good relationship with DEC enforcement in recent years and have conducted numerous joint patrols. More
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5/19/12: A young black bear swam across Rondout Creek More
Mark Ruffalo at the New Yorkers Against Fracking Rally
Photos from the New Yorkers Against Fracking Rally in Albany, N.Y., on May 15, 2012. More
Newtown Creek today during our May water quality patrol, which began this morning. Raining. We see several sites with very turbid discharges – we assume storm water. No sheens. No SPDES signs (pollution discharge permits). Also, at Pratt oil seep on Queens side the absorbent […] More
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When we first started patrolling here in 2002 we saw NO ONE - ever. More
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You’re looking at the sum total protection against terrorist attack from the water. More
Meet Chris Brennan of Brennan Boatbuilding, pictured here with Captain John. Chris makes it possible to improve the patrol boat each and every year. This winter, one of Chris’ major tasks was replanking portions of the underside of the boat and he did a tremendous […] More
The State is conducting a “Pile Demonstration Implementation Project” (PIDP) in the Hudson and is also collecting many core samples of bottom sediment. The data collected will be provided to the contractors who are bidding on construction of the proposed two new bridge structures. Riverkeeper, […] More

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