Yesterday we patrolled Tappan Zee Bay with students from the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic! The Clinic works collaboratively with Riverkeeper in many legal proceedings at the local, state, and federal level. It was great to get them out on the water! Professors Karl Coplan and […] More
Blog articles by Riverkeeper staff and supporters
Picked this up the other night in the Port of Albany. It’s a big molded foam filled dock float. Bigger than most. It’s partially full of water so it’s heavy – it was even a grunt for the winch. There was a striper fishing boat […] More
Testifies that legislative action on hydrofracking is urgently needed Riverkeeper testified in Albany today at the Senate Democratic Conference Public Forum on Hydraulic Fracturing along with our partner organizations and fellow advocates. Riverkeeper urged swift legislative action to address the substantial flaws in the state’s […] More
The above picture is of a development in Milton, just north of Newburgh, on the ridge above the river and a recent landslide. Property owners often cut the trees on the bank, for the view, and then often the bank collapses. Note that the CSX freight […] More
Last week we were heading southbound on the Harlem River. WCBS Producer Mary McGeever was aboard interviewing Riverkeeper Investigator Josh Verleun for a story about illegal shoreline dumping. We were showing her sites on the Harlem River and on Newtown Creek.Here are examples on the […] More
Passing Indian Point last week at 0830 AM I found that the buoys which normally mark the security zone around the plant were missing. During past winters, they have been removed to prevent loss due to river ice. But winter’s over now – boat traffic […] More
How the gas industry steals from the water budget and leaves us with a toxic waste problem Every time the gas industry fracks, the public loses. We forfeit an enormous amount of fresh water from our rivers, lakes and streams, and we get a toxic […] More
Today was our first patrol of Newtown Creek for our 2012 season. Over the years, we’ve dealt with a number of businesses which have seen fit to dump waste material into the creek. This afternoon we came across a bunch of Styrofoam sheets discarded on the bank […] More
