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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 3, 2010 Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239 New York’s Clean Water Advocate Teams with Religious Organizations Along the Hudson River in Successful Letter Writing Campaign Tarrytown, NY – March 3, 2010 – In a major victory for American Shad coast-wide, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) has approved Amendment 3 to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for Shad and River Herring. To protect coast-wide shad populations, shad fisheries will be closed except in states that demonstrate through research that their commercial and/or recreational fisheries will not … Learn More

EPA, GE to release final reports on PCB cleanup’s first phase Friday; groups urge EPA to determine next steps Learn More

Tarrytown, NY – March 2, 2010 – Riverkeeper, New York’s leading clean water advocate, today commended the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to list Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal on the Superfund National Priorities List. The decision to list the canal will begin a comprehensive effort by the federal EPA to remove 150 years of contamination from the Canal’s murky bottom and to address sites along the Canal’s banks that continue to leach pollution into the waterway. Learn More

New York's leading clean water advocate calls on Department of Environmental Conservation to open regulatory review process to public scrutiny. Learn More

RIVERKEEPER CALLS ON NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TO DEFINE AND ENFORCE STANDARDS FOR APPROVING EMERGENCY PLANS AT INDIAN POINT Concerns Presented to NRC Commissioners at Emergency Planning Rulemaking Meeting in Washington, DC Learn More

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** November 5, 2009 Contacts: James Simpson, Staff Attorney (917) 952-2158 Craig Michaels, Watershed Program Director (917) 579-5582 RIVERKEEPER RELEASES FIFTH GAS DRILLING REPORTER Details Environmental Impacts of Gas Drilling From Around the Country White Plains, NY – November 5, 2009 — Today Riverkeeper released the fifth volume of its Industrial Gas Drilling Reporter. The Reporter collects impact stories of industrial gas drilling from across the country, provides an update on the State environmental review, links to recent reports, and educates the public on ways to take action. Since the summer of … Learn More

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** October 28, 2009 Contacts: James Simpson, Staff Attorney (917) 952-2158 Craig Michaels, Watershed Program Director (917) 579-5582 CHESAPEAKE ENERGY TAKES A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BY CHOOSING NOT TO DRILL IN THE NYC WATERSHED Riverkeeper Urges State to Permanently Put Watershed Off Limits to Industrial Gas Drilling White Plains, NY – October 28, 2009 – In the wake of Chesapeake Energy’s decision not to drill for natural gas on leased land within the New York City Watershed, Riverkeeper today renewed its call on State to permanently prohibit industrial … Learn More

NY State DEC has released the draft environmental impact statement on gas drilling in the state and the 60-day public comment period has begun. Learn More

For Immediate Release: September 24, 2009 Contact: Ramona Cearley 914-478-4501 x 235 rcearley@riverkeeper.org RIVERKEEPER SUPPORTS EPA’S PROPOSAL TO CONSIDER NEWTOWN CREEK FOR SUPERFUND STATUS Tarrytown, NY – Riverkeeper commends the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its announcement yesterday to propose listing Newtown Creek on the National Priorities List (NPL) as a potential Superfund site. Newtown Creek is a tributary of the Hudson and East Rivers, located between Brooklyn and Queens. Decades of industrial pollution and raw sewage overflows have rendered the Creek one of the most highly polluted waterways in the United States. … Learn More