09.14.15
:: Press Releases :: Indian Point
For Immediate Release: September 14, 2015 Contact: Cliff Weathers, Communications Director Office: 914-478-4501, Ext 239 Cell: 845-445-8257 Email:
[email protected] State hearings on Indian Point begin today Proceedings will address proposals to impose seasonal shutdowns to help protect Hudson River fish. More than a billion aquatic organisms are killed every year. Albany, N.Y. — Administrative law judges for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation will hear arguments today on whether Entergy is entitled to the Clean Water permits it must obtain from the state to continue operating the Indian Point […]
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09.13.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Times Herald-Record
09.12.15
:: Boat Blog
Grey day, passing Indian Point, one day after the 9/11 anniversary. No security presence on the water whatsoever. I remember the years following 2001 when there were Homeland Security boats here 24/7. They put on a great show patrolling the inside of the 900-foot-wide security zone like guard dogs inside a fence. And for a time all commercial vessels were stopped and boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard. We were harassed on several occasions when military boats came out of the security zone to bust our chops – just because […]
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09.12.15
:: Boat Blog
Riverkeeper and two citizen groups, the Guardians of Flushing Bay and the Empire Dragon Boat Team, are demanding the removal of two abandoned, derelict barges that are polluting Flushing Bay with Styrofoam and other contaminants and posing an imminent hazard to commercial and recreational vessels. Numerous authorities (NYPD, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York Department of Environmental Conservation) were first alerted in January and February 2015, but the barges and Styrofoam waste have not been removed. If these two barges had gone aground right next to […]
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09.11.15
:: Contaminated Sites
Watch a recorded version of "Back to School on PCBs in the Hudson," hosted by Riverkeeper, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Campaign for a Cleaner Hudson.
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09.11.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Times Union
09.11.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Poughkeepsie Journal
09.11.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Troy Record
09.05.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: The Journal News
09.04.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Times Union
