Environmental, Transit Groups to NY State: Tappan Zee Without Transit is...
The Tappan Zee Bridge (photo by Patsy Wooters via Flickr)Environmental group Riverkeeper is calling New York State's plans for a new Tappan Zee Bridge "a a fatally flawed project that is obsolete from...
View ArticleBattle for Indian Point Intensifies
The Indian Point nuclear power plant, about 35 miles north of Times Square, has been generating electricity since the Brady Bunch era. And it shows in the gray metal control panels, oversized dials and...
View ArticleSewage Spills Common in Area Waterways, Environmental Advocates Say
The Harlem sewage wastewater treatment plant dumped 200 million gallons of sewage into the Hudson last week — and over the course of a year, 30 billion gallons of combined rain and sewage overflow is...
View ArticleIndian Point Nuclear Plant Should Be Shuttered: Environmentalists
A new report commissioned by the National Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper stated that there are alternative energy resources available to replace Indian Point should the Nuclear Regulatory...
View ArticleNY Environmental Group Objects to Tappan Zee Plan
New York should slow down the "breakneck" push toward a new Tappan Zee Bridge and take another look at alternatives including simply rehabilitating the existing Hudson River span, a key environmental...
View ArticleBeached Whale Is Dead, Official Says
A wildlife official says an endangered whale has died after getting stranded on a beach in a coastal enclave of New York City.Mendy Garron of the National Marine Fisheries Service says officials found...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney: Indian Point supervisor falsified records
A former supervisor at the Indian Point nuclear power plant was arrested Tuesday for allegedly falsifying records in an effort to keep the plant from having to shut down. It's just the latest headache...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin is On a Mission to Save the Planet
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. For years, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has continuously vowed to put an end to the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, located in Westchester...
View ArticleHow Environmental Laws Can Protect People, Not Polluters
Environmentalist and Delaware Riverkeeper Maya K. Van Rossum discusses her new book The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to A Healthy Environment. Van Rossum argues that our environmental laws have...
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