05.19.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: The Buffalo News
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05.18.15
:: Don't Frack with New York
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 […]
05.18.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Legislative Gazette
Fracking fight almost over: NY is one step closer to a ban on fracking
05.18.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
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.
05.16.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: MSNBC
Oil shipped by rail another safety concern
05.14.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Rockland County Times
TZ Bridge Blog: NYS Drops Appeal for Clean Water Funds Money
05.14.15
:: Get Involved
2,000 volunteers net 40 tons of shoreline trash in a day – Riverkeeper pledges year-round Campaign for a Trash Free Hudson
Riverkeeper is announcing a sustained, year-round campaign to make the waters trash-free after tallying the results of its largest ever shoreline cleanup effort Saturday, May 9 – when 40 tons of debris were removed from the Hudson Valley and New York City shorelines in a single day.
05.14.15
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Riverkeeper’s statement on the environmental review that lays the groundwork for NY’s fracking ban
The Cuomo administration's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) just released its long anticipated environmental review that lays the groundwork for ban of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for natural gas in New York.
05.13.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: The New York Times
Fire Prompts Renewed Calls to Close the Indian Point Nuclear Plant
05.12.15
:: Docket
Day of Service for the Hudson: Sweep Results Are In
