Tina Posterli
Tina Posterli has an extensive background working in the non-profit, healthcare and education sectors in the areas of public relations, programming and policy communications. Her past clientele includes: City Harvest, the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation for Young Adults, The Fritz Institute and the Institute for OneWorld Health. Most recently, she worked to initiate the media launch of City Harvest’s greening initiative and outreach surrounding the organization’s stance on the Farm Bill Nutrition Title and Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization.
Ms. Posterli’s interest in environmental issues led to her becoming an ongoing contributing writer for the eco-newsletter, Becauseaction.com.
Ms. Posterli’s background includes leadership positions with The Greater New York March of Dimes and the United Way of Hancock County in Findlay, Ohio. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in allied health professions from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
On the heels of the state’s release of its irresponsible fracking regulations, a new Siena Poll shows that support for fracking among New York voters statewide fell 2 points to 40% while opposition increased by 8 points to 44%. There is also a groundswell of …
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Today, almost one hundred organizations and professionals, stand together to oppose the plan that was leaked to The New York Times last week, which would establish a demonstration program for high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in parts of Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga counties. …
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During a Bar Association panel discussion on Wednesday, New York State confirmed that its environmental review on fracking will be finished this Spring. If we don’t stop it, fracking is coming to New York this Summer. The battle is on to preserve our health, water …
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View more images on our Flickr site Riverkeeper was proud to stand alongside our fellow advocates and concerned citizens in delivering much needed water to fracking victims in Dimock, Pennsylvania. This delivery was especially poignant because the clean water in the 5,700 gallon truck …
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(NYC & Dimock, PA)— It wasn’t a flood or natural disaster that left more than a dozen families in Dimock, PA without clean drinking water. The disaster in Dimock was caused by the Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation’s use of the hazardous gas drilling method …
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Today’s editorial in The New York Times highlights the very same concerns Riverkeeper has been raising regarding New York’s failure to commit to issuing regulations before permits and the inadequate proposal for protecting the NYC drinking water supply in its revised fracking environmental impact statement: …
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In a Riverkeeper exclusive interview by Karen Rybold-Chin, Lisa Graves, Executive Director of The Center for Media and Democracy, talks about the task forces of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the work going on to secretly advance its agenda, targeting legal rules that …
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Here is another sneak peek from the upcoming 2011 version of Fractured Communities A leaked New York State Department of Transportation (“DOT”) report suggests that New York is not ready for the 1.5 million additional heavy truck trips each year that could result from shale …
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DEC’s Revised Draft Environmental Review Shows Improvement, But Serious Gaps On July 8, 2011, Governor Cuomo’s Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”) released its preliminary revised draft environmental review on proposed new hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) (the “Preliminary Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement” or “revised …
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On April 11, hundreds of people gathered in Albany to make their voice heard to Governor Cuomo in an anti-fracking rally that included legislators, activists, environmental groups, people affected by fracking practices gone wrong and Josh Fox, creator and director of the Academy Award-nominated film, …
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As published on NRDC’s Switchboard By Amy Mall April 6, 2011 Government officials from around the world have recently declared that the risks of natural gas drilling are too great to allow it to proceed without additional analysis: The Town Council of Bartonville, Texas, in the …
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by Josh Fox/ GASLAND March 16, 2011 This week, Teddy Borawski, the chief oil and gas geologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and a member of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s administration, serving in an official capacity, and on the record, compared …
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