12.15.15
:: Docket
After eight years of an acrimonious public debate, on December 17, 2015, the NYS Public Service Commission is expected to finally decide the fate of a proposal by multinational giant Suez Environment to construct a controversial Haverstraw Water Supply Project desalination plant for public drinking water in an irreplaceable habitat of the Lower Hudson River.
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12.04.15
:: Press Releases :: Safeguard Drinking Water
“Hunter’s landfill leachate treatment system must be upgraded to preserve a critical drinking water source and fishery,” says New York’s clean water advocate. “Six years of violations of the Clean Water Act must come to an end.”
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12.03.15
:: Press Releases :: Safeguard Drinking Water
City of Kingston Reiterates Strong Opposition to Proposed Pipelines, Citing Commitment to Protect Drinking Water and Climate, Reduce Dependence on Fossil Fuels
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12.02.15
:: Don't Frack with New York
Riverkeeper has spent the past seven years providing New Yorkers with information and resources to help shape the debate about the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas from deep underground deposits.
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11.23.15
:: Docket
Riverkeeper has many tools to use to achieve its mission to protect water quality and the drinking water of millions of New Yorkers. One of the most important tools is the ability to file lawsuits in Courts - sometimes to enforce our environmental laws, and sometimes to protect the rights of aggrieved individuals.
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11.11.15
:: Docket
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Photo via Flickr / U.S. Department of Agriculture
The beetle, an invasive species which is not native to these parts, has become quite a problem in New York and now threatens the New York City Watershed lands.
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10.03.15
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08.13.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Our Town Newspaper