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11.17.10 :: Rvk in the Press :: Associated Press

Exxon to pay $25M in settlement over NYC oil spill

11.17.10 :: Rvk in the Press :: Gotham Gazettte

Cuomo Gets Settlement From ExxonMobil for Greenpoint

11.17.10 :: Press Releases :: Contaminated Sites

Riverkeeper Instrumental in Settling Landmark Oil Spill Suit in Brooklyn

Photos courtesy Giles Ashford

Riverkeeper joined New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and residents of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint community to announce a landmark settlement of federal litigation against ExxonMobil for oil contamination of a large section of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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11.10.10 :: Rvk in the Press :: Gotham Gazette

Afters Cuts and Firing, Can Agency Still Protect New York’s Environment?

10.22.10 :: Rvk in the Press :: CNN

Big oil’s big cleanup in Brooklyn

10.08.10 :: Latest Developments :: Contaminated Sites

Environmental Groups Request a Meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Photo courtesy Giles Ashford

Riverkeeper, along with Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Natural Resources Defense Council and Scenic Hudson, have submitted a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting a meeting to discuss GE’s latest bid for additional postponements to the PCB cleanup project.

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09.30.10 :: Rvk in the Press

Contaminated Sites

Exxon to pay $25M in settlement over NYC oil spill

Cuomo Gets Settlement From ExxonMobil for Greenpoint

Riverkeeper Instrumental in Settling Landmark Oil Spill Suit in Brooklyn

Afters Cuts and Firing, Can Agency Still Protect New York’s Environment?

Big oil’s big cleanup in Brooklyn

Environmental Groups Request a Meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

Newtown Creek now Superfund site

Newtown Creek: Super-Polluted, and Now a Superfund Site

EPA Adds Newtown Creek to Superfund List

EPA Declares Newtown Creek A Superfund Site

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