04.05.12
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
Contact: Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 516-526-9371,
[email protected] Riverkeeper and Natural Resources Defense Council support New York State’s new vision for reliable, environmentally sound energy supply and transmission April 5, 2012 – Following yesterday’s New York Energy Highway Task Force Summit, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper announced they fully support Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s goal of completing a bold new blueprint for energy sustainability in New York, with input from the public, the business sector and others. The groups are committed to helping the state create a new energy plan. […]
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04.02.12
:: Press Releases :: Preserve River Ecology
Riverkeeper has submitted extensive comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to the Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project, calling on state officials to heed the public’s concerns and reconsider their plan to push through a fatally flawed project that is obsolete from day one without mass transit, and would inflict severe damage on the Hudson River ecosystem.
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03.29.12
:: Press Releases :: Contaminated Sites
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Julia Church, Clearwater, 845 265 8080, ext. 7112, or
[email protected] Kate Slusark, Natural Resources Defense Council, 212 727 4592;
[email protected] Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914 478 4501, Ext. 239;
[email protected] Jay Burgess, Scenic Hudson, 845 473 4440, Ext. 222, or
[email protected] Five-Year Review has potential to ensure the most effective cleanup Capital Region/Hudson Valley — March 29, 2012 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that, while the Hudson River cleanup continues this year, the agency will simultaneously perform a necessary evaluation to determine just how […]
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03.27.12
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
A coalition of environmental groups and medical professionals are calling on Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature to honor his promise of putting science before politics by mandating and funding a health impact assessment on hydrofracking in the NYS Budget for 2012-2013.
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03.26.12
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
Riverkeeper strongly supports the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for taking action against Entergy Corporation, the owner of Indian Point 3, and issuing a $1.2 million penalty for Clean Water Act violations stemming from a 2010 explosion and fire at the Indian Point nuclear facility. The transformer explosion caused an emergency shutdown of the IP3 reactor and an oil spill into the Hudson River.
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03.22.12
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Dimock families and advocacy groups called today on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to compel the state of Pennsylvania to provide replacement water to the residents after the Environmental Protection Agency’s own preliminary water test results show their water was contaminated from nearby gas drilling. Controversy has surfaced over EPA Region 3’s initial pronouncements that the water poses no immediate health threat.
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03.20.12
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera calls for Public Hearing to Examine the Emergency Plans of Local and State Governments in the Event of a Nuclear Accident at Indian Point Energy Center, Riverkeeper, NYPIRG, Clearwater Join Call to Examine Emergency Response Capabilities ALBANY, NEW YORK – (3/20/2012) —— A year after the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe on the planet and a year to-the-date when she first announced her legislation mandating a comprehensive emergency plan to safeguard New Yorkers beyond a 10-mile radius of the Indian Point Energy Center, […]
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03.16.12
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
Photo courtesy Giles Ashford
Members of the House Appropriation Subcommittee on Homeland Security, including Congresswoman Lowey from New York, had the unique occasion to participate in an aerial tour of the Indian Point nuclear plant and surrounding area yesterday to review critical infrastructure in New York and the need for adequate federal anti-terrorism funding.
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02.01.12
:: Press Releases :: Preserve River Ecology
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) announced its decision to designate the Hudson River Atlantic Sturgeon population as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Riverkeeper has had a long history protecting the Hudson River’s largest and most iconic fish.
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01.26.12
:: Press Releases :: Stop Polluters
Court Rules for NRDC, Waterkeeper Alliance and Others: New York State’s Program to Stem Stormwater Pollution Declared Inadequate New York — Forty years after the passing of the Clean Water Act, the Westchester County Supreme Court ruled January 10, 2012 that New York State is failing to take legally required steps to clean up one of the biggest sources of pollution in its waterways – stormwater runoff. The decision comes after a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Waterkeeper organization in the region and other partners, challenging the […]
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