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Contact: Ellen Weininger, Grassroots Environmental Education (914) 422-3141 Susan Van Dolsen, Westchester For Change (914) 525-8886 Suzannah Glidden, Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition (914) 234-6470 County Ban Prohibits Road-Spreading, Processing or Dumping of Toxic Waste from Gas Drilling (White Plains, NY) – A coalition of health and environmental groups gathered in White Plains today to congratulate the Westchester County Board of Legislators for unanimously voting to prohibit the sale, application and disposal of waste products from natural gas drilling anywhere in the county. The new law, which applies to all […]

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Calls for DEC to wait for the science and open the process up to the public

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Riverkeeper, Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Technical Information, Mark Leyse, 646-623-6835, [email protected] Riverkeeper files petition with NRC; calls for permanent shutdown of outdated nuclear plant Ossining, NY – November 14, 2012 – Riverkeeper filed an enforcement petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today, requesting that the federal regulator order the Indian Point nuclear power plant to be shutdown permanently. The petition cites safety analyses indicating that hydrogen produced in the event of a meltdown could detonate and breach one of Indian Point’s reactor containment […]

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Wastewater treatment plants have been dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage into local waterways since Hurricane Sandy hit, and while New York plants are largely back online, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has not been forthcoming about the status of the spills or testing of the waterways.

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The impact of Sandy's storm surge is enormous, causing widespread pollution of the Hudson River and New York Harbor by a variety of toxic chemicals, including petroleum and fluids from cars and boats; contaminants from flooded subways, roads, parking lots and tunnels; and contaminants washed from shoreline industrial sites, as well as commercial and residential buildings.

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The blueprint delivered by the New York Energy Highway Task Force to Governor Cuomo on Monday provides a viable plan for moving the state into an energy future without the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

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In just the last year, New York State began developing at least 25 percent of the alternative electricity sources necessary to replace the Indian Point nuclear power plant, according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Grant through Environmental Protection Fund monies will help forward critical information about water quality in the Hudson River Estuary Ossining, NY – October 10, 2012 – Riverkeeper is pleased to announce that the Hudson River Estuary Program (HREP) of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will fund the 2013 follow up to its “How Is the Water?” report through monies from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). “How Is the Water?” is the groundbreaking study […]

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Riverkeeper commends the over 50 medical professionals and the Broome and Tompkins County Medical Societies who renewed their call for the state to conduct a comprehensive health impact assessment (HIA) on fracking in a letter to Governor Cuomo released yesterday.

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