Projects are the linchpin of healthy communities, economic growth, clean water For Immediate Release: November 16, 2016 Albany – As Governor Andrew M. Cuomo prepares to submit his SFY2017-18 Budget proposal to the Legislature, advocates have stepped up the call for investing in our communities’ […] More
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A heron stands on an abandoned boat on the Bronx River. (Photo: Leah Rae / Riverkeeper)
Riverkeeper urges those who may have consumed contaminated City of Newburgh drinking water to attend an important community meeting on October 25 at 7 p.m. and demand that the state Department of Health provide blood testing for all exposed residents. More
The Environmental Protection Agency’s five-year review process must be handled in a transparent and inclusive manner and that the EPA should not give General Electric a free pass when the river and its fish remain contaminated by PCBs More
Environmental and community groups opposing a proposal to build two 170-mile oil pipelines through the heart of the Hudson Valley are sending video comments of opposition from residents who attended an Oct. 1 public session hosted in the City of Newburgh. More
Riverkeeper and a coalition of groups has filed a Motion for a Stay asking a federal court to stop the construction of Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project before high volumes of fracked natural gas begins flowing through the pipeline located in close proximity to the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. More
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse its decision to stop polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) dredging in the Upper Hudson River. More
The NYS State Department of Environmental Conservation sent a letter to Global Partners LP on Friday informing the energy company that its air quality renewal permit application for the Port of Albany will be considered as an entirely new application, requiring additional information to address issues identified by DEC and restarting the environmental review process. More
Lead agencies cite “unprecedented” use of thruway right of way as a threat to public safety in calling for a full environmental review of Pilgrim Pipelines’ potentially extensive impacts More
Legislators and environmental organizations called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to complete his commitment to ban fracking, and to protect New York’s clean water, by directing his Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to ban waste from oil and gas operations. More
