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Listen, create, love – Let your inspiration flow to the Hudson River!

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We’re working with the great Woodstock-based band THE DUKE AND THE KING to bring you this fun new video contest!

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How long would it take a power plant to empty an Olympic swimming pool?

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Olympic swimming pool image courtesy William Bird vintage card collection
EPA has extended the cooling water intake rule comment period to August 18, 2011. Up and down the shores of the Hudson River, power plants continue to use outdated technology known as once-through cooling and withdraw nearly five billion gallons of the river’s water each day to produce electricity.

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Fight Congress’ Attack on the Clean Water Act!

The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act would roll back 40 years of Clean Water Act protection by stripping away EPA's authority over our nation's water quality standards. Before the Clean Water Act, states were free to set their own standards, which resulted in a "race to the bottom" to attract industrial development, and interstate conflicts when one state's pollution problems were passed downstream to another.

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Tell the EPA: Take a Stand Against Industry Pressure and Save Millions of Hudson River Fish Each Year

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Up and down the shores of the Hudson River, power plants continue to use outdated technology known as once-through cooling and withdraw nearly five billion gallons of the river’s water each day to produce electricity. That’s more than quadruple the volume of water consumed by nine million people in New York City and parts of Westchester. While generating record profits, they are extracting an even larger cost on our river’s aquatic life and hope for a sustainable future. This enormous water use needlessly kills billions of fish, eggs and larvae […]

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Tell DRBC to Protect Oquaga Creek from Fracking Water Withdrawals

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Take action today and urge the DRBC to postpone a vote on an application by XTO Energy (ExxonMobil Corp.) to withdraw 250,000 thousand gallons of water per day from the Oquaga Creek in Broome County, NY for gas drilling in Broome and Delaware counties.

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Is Radioactivity in Your Drinking Water OK with You?

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Urge Governor Cuomo to Extend Executive Order No. 41. The ground-breaking New York Times series by Ian Urbina, documents an extensive and disturbing amount of information that was gathered from EPA, state regulators and gas drilling companies, not previously made available, either to the public or to key government regulators and decision-makers. The EPA memo reveals that Pittsburgh residents suffered “one of the largest failures in US history to supply clean drinking water” due in part to fracking wastes.

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Submit Your Comments to the DRBC

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Photo courtesy Giles Ashford
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), has issued drilling and fracking rules against the will of New York State, New York City, Philadelphia, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, many elected officials, and thousands of citizens. Please submit comments today to the DRBC.

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Tell the EPA not to let GE forgo its responsibility to get its toxic PCBs out of the Hudson River

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Photo courtesy Giles Ashford
Send a message right away urging EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to ensure that GE conducts a full cleanup of its toxic PCBs from the Hudson River.

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Don’t Frack With NY Water! Merchandise Now Available

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Hot on the heels of the recent moratorium victory, Riverkeeper is offering Don’t Frack t-shirt and water bottle combination package.

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Our 1% Goes to Riverkeeper, Here’s Why.

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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