05.18.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
Riverkeeper is challenging new U.S. Department of Transportation crude-by-rail standards in federal court, saying that they fail to protect the public and the environment from proven threats.
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05.14.15
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
The Cuomo administration's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) just released its long anticipated environmental review that lays the groundwork for ban of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for natural gas in New York.
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05.12.15
:: Press Releases :: Preserve River Ecology
Riverkeeper has the following statement in response to today’s announcement of an agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.
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05.10.15
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
Indian Point 3 is exempt from the fire-protection standards required of other nuclear power plants For Immediate Release: May 10, 2015 Contact: Cliff Weathers, 914-478-4501, Ext 239 NOTE TO EDITORS: A photograph of the oil sheen near Indian Point is attached. More will be made available upon request. BUCHANAN, NY – The May 9 transformer fire at the Indian Point nuclear power plant – its third in the past eight years – appears to have resulted in an oil spill that could impact the health of the Hudson River and […]
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05.08.15
:: Press Releases :: Get Involved
John McEnroe is joined by Riverkeeper's Dana Gulley in clearing the shoreline of Randall's Island of invasive plants and trash.
Friday's event kicks off the 4th annual Riverkeeper Sweep; 100+ projects will take place Saturday from NYC to the Capital District
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05.07.15
:: Press Releases :: Contaminated Sites
The Campaign for a Cleaner Hudson has urged GE to take on additional restoration dredging to clean up more of the toxic PCBs it dumped into the river.
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05.06.15
:: Press Releases :: Get Involved
Volunteers will kick off Riverkeeper Sweep 2015 this Friday by clearing trash and and removing invasive plants at Randall's Island Park.
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05.04.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
For Immediate Release: May 4, 2015 Contact: Leah Rae, Riverkeeper 914-478-4501, Ext. 238 “Sen. Schumer is right to demand faster, stronger action to address the imminent danger from crude oil trains that run straight through our towns daily and along our rivers daily,” Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay said. “We should not have to wait five or 10 years for what’s urgently and clearly needed: to get accident-prone rail cars, clearly prone to disastrous spills and explosions, off the tracks.” “The feds have acknowledged these accidents will continue – at a […]
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05.01.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2015 Contacts: Hayley Carlock, Scenic Hudson, 845 473 4440, ext. 210,
[email protected] Cliff Weathers, Riverkeeper, 917 202 6854,
[email protected] Tina Posterli, Waterkeeper Alliance, 516 526 9371,
[email protected] HUDSON VALLEY, NY – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released regulations today outlining new requirements for the design of tanker cars as well as other actions intended to improve the safety of shipping volatile Bakken crude oil by rail. However, while the actions appear to require a higher level of safety—calling for eventual braking upgrades and reduced […]
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05.01.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
Long phase-out of hazardous cars, inadequate speed limits, deficient tanker shells leave communities at risk of catastrophe
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