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Obama Administration Sued for “Weak” Oil Rail Car Standards by Environmental Conservation Groups

Take Action: Tell FERC the Atlantic Bridge Pipeline Project Requires a Comprehensive Environmental Review

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has begun environmental review for the Atlantic Bridge Project and is requesting input regarding the scope of that review. The Atlantic Bridge Project is the second planned expansion of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline system, following the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project. We need your help to urge FERC to conduct a comprehensive environmental review. The Atlantic Bridge Project spans New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. It would entail an additional five miles of construction in New York, including four miles within the watershed supplying […]

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Riverkeeper statement for Indian Point Annual Assessment Meeting

The third transformer explosion and fire in just eight years at Indian Point is proof positive that we need to decommission this unreliable, unsafe and environmentally damaging facility. This most recent incident is particularly disturbing not just because starkly similarly failures have already happened twice, but also because in 2009, the NRC specifically recognized the problematic trend in transformer failures at nuclear plants, and found that such failures could be avoided if licensees like Entergy implemented an effective maintenance program and a more proactive approach to addressing transformer issues.(1) Clearly, […]

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Margo Pellegrino: View from the water

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Our friend, paddler and clean water advocate Margo Pellegrino, shares this report from her remarkable journey. Learn more at her blog, Paddle 4 Blue. I’ve paddled an outrigger canoe solo along the length of the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts. I’ve done this for myself, my community and my two children because I still believe we can make a difference. Our ocean is in crisis, as are our watersheds, our rivers, and the very drinking water on which our lives depend. In an effort to show the connectivity between […]

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Environmental group sues DOT over oil train rules

The Fracking End-Game Begins

The Final Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (“SGEIS”) on High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (“HVHF”) is a document to be celebrated. It contains the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (“DEC”) finding that “there is currently insufficient scientific information to conclude that [HVHF] can be undertaken without posing unreasonable risk to public health.” Therefore, DEC will grant exactly what fracking activists have called for: a formal, legal prohibition on HVHF in New York. The bulk of the Final SGEIS contains an analysis of the potential adverse environmental impacts of permitting HVHF […]

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Fracking fight almost over: NY is one step closer to a ban on fracking

Riverkeeper sues DOT over critically flawed crude-by-rail standards

Riverkeeper is challenging new U.S. Department of Transportation crude-by-rail standards in federal court, saying that they fail to protect the public and the environment from proven threats.

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Oil shipped by rail another safety concern

TZ Bridge Blog: NYS Drops Appeal for Clean Water Funds Money