Mike Dulong
Michael Dulong joined Riverkeeper in May 2012 as a staff attorney with the Watershed Program. His work focuses on a range of watershed protection issues, including monitoring agency compliance under the New York City Watershed Agreement; ensuring the operation of New York City’s reservoirs and infrastructure has minimal impact on local ecosystems and communities; and investigating and developing citizen pollution complaints. He also performs advocacy for Riverkeeper’s campaign to prevent irresponsible industrial gas extraction and development in New York with a particular focus on gas development’s adverse socioeconomic impacts.
Mr. Dulong received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2011. Michael received his B.A., cum laude from The University of Massachusetts and his M.A. in British and American literature from New York University.
Middlefield Neighbors, a grassroots anti-fracking group from the small town of Middlefield, NY demonstrate their opposition to fracking. Photo via Flickr 350.org
Oral argument in the Dryden and Middlefield municipal fracking ban cases was heard yesterday, March 21, 2013, at the Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, in Albany.
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The efforts of hundreds of thousands of activists have held off fracking in New York until now, but that could change this month.
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Riverkeeper has identified many flaws in the Revised Draft High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF) Regulations, but here are ten of our major concerns. Please use these as a guide to help you in preparing your own personalized comments on the regulations.
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Go see the movie this opening weekend to send the message of New York State’s and the nation’s growing concern about fracking.
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Watch the debate live online here. Riverkeeper’s President Paul Gallay will advocate that fracking causes more harm than good at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, November 30, as part of Syracuse University’s Campbell Debates series. He will be joined by Robert Howarth, Professor of Ecology and …
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Photo courtesy Jessica Riehl
Today, pro-fracking organizations are gathering in Albany under the banner “Real People for Real Jobs” to urge the state to put a rubber stamp on its fracking plan, claiming it will bring jobs and revenue to upstate New York. We want all New Yorkers to …
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Governor Cuomo may release his plan to open parts of New York to fracking before Labor Day. Cuomo’s deeply-flawed plan reportedly won’t initially include any new DEC inspection staff, taxes or levies on the drilling industry to pay for the community costs of fracking, or a …
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The Times Union commentator, Fred LeBrun, reports that DEC is prepared to move forward with fracking permits on a limited scale with no new DEC inspection staff, no taxes or levies on the drilling industry to cover the costs of fracking to the state or …
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