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Member of the Gowanus Community Advisory Group and Technical/Water Quality sub-committee will comment at January 24th meeting about additional areas critical to providing a full-scale remediation

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Riverkeeper, NRDC energy study provides framework to create an energy future without the old, outdated nuclear plant. Ossining, NY – January 17, 2012 – Just two days after a pump failure that forced the shut down of one of Indian Point’s two reactors, state officials held a landmark hearing to discuss how New York’s energy supply and economy would be affected by the closure of Indian Point. State officials and utility representatives discussed last Thursday how New York City could replace the power it currently obtains from Indian Point if […]

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As the comment period on New York State’s fracking proposals come to a close, Riverkeeper announced today that it has submitted a detailed letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) highlighting six fundamental flaws in the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) and draft high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) regulations that pose a major threat to the NYC Watershed.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Kate Slusark, NRDC, 212-727-4592, [email protected] Study commissioned by Riverkeeper and NRDC provides a viable blueprint for an energy future without Indian Point Ossining, NY, January 12, 2012 – Synapse Energy Consultants was invited by the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Energy and Assembly Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, to provide testimony on its recent report, Indian Point Energy Center Nuclear Plant Retirement Analysis; Replacement Options, Reliability Issues and Economic Effects, at today’s public hearing to […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After two drafts, significant aspects of environmental impact statement still so deficient that it must be redone. New York, NY, January 10, 2012 – Catskill Mountainkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Riverkeeper, Inc. announced today that, after extensive evaluation and technical expert review, they have concluded that the state must go back and revisit significant aspects of its revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) before fracking can move forward. Tomorrow, the groups are submitting over 500 pages of joint comments […]

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Eleven families in this tiny rural town, 30 miles south of Binghamton, NY, have received the most basic of holiday gifts: Clean drinking water.

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For Release: IMMEDIATE Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Contact: Emily DeSantis 518-402-8000 Big Indian Acquisition Protects Important State Forestland New York state’s purchase of 1,200 acres of land on the eastern side of Belleayre Mountain, known as Big Indian, is expected to be completed later this week, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. The acquisition will expand the Catskill Park Preserve and further protect the New York City watershed. “The Big Indian acquisition preserves a major undeveloped geographic feature of the scenic Route 28 corridor […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper 516.526.9371 [email protected] Petition DEC to take action against DEP’s unpermitted turbid releases into Lower Esopus Creek Ossining, NY— December 16, 2011 – In a joint petition submitted today, Ulster County and Riverkeeper took steps to require the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to obtain a permit that would limit the release of turbid water into the Lower Esopus Creek from the Ashokan Reservoir. The petition calls for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to initiate a permitting […]

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n response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement today that the agency has documented industrial gas drilling by means of high volume hydraulic fracturing or fracking as the source of contamination of aquifers and wells that supply drinking water to families in Pavillion, WY, the New York Water Rangers released the following statement:

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