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

Riverkeeper applauds the House Committee on Natural Resources for voting Congressman Hinchey’s “Hudson River Valley Special Resource Study Act” out of committee, which clears the way for a full House vote on the legislation. The Act would fund a federal study to assess whether the Hudson Valley should be made a unit of the National Park Service in order to better preserve and promote the region’s outstanding natural, cultural, historic, recreational and scenic resources. Unlike a traditional National Park, this designation would be founded on close cooperation between … Learn More

Riverkeeper recently submitted comments to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in opposition of Executive Order 25, which grants almost unlimited power to a small group of political appointees led by Secretary to the Governor Larry Schwarz to remake the state's regulatory system to serve their own political interests. Learn More

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 diminish the potential future stock reproduction and recruitment. Amendment 3 will require all states to have management plans completed and approved by January 1, 2013, otherwise closures will be instituted on a state-by-state basis. Riverkeeper … Learn More

Dear Riverkeeper Friends, Later this year, after 10 wonderful years at the helm of Riverkeeper, I will be stepping down as Hudson Riverkeeper and president. To all of our members and donors, and my many colleagues in the New York environmental community, who together made possible Riverkeeper’s extraordinary growth and record of achievement, THANK YOU for your unfailing friendship and generous support. And thank you for entrusting me with the honor of leading one of the most effective environmental groups on the planet. Over the next few months, I will assist the … Learn More

As it appeared in the The Daily Star – Letters to the editor: February 13, 2010 Your Feb. 2 article “Drug dumping charges threaten loans” reported demands made by state and local politicians that orders against certain Delaware County health care facilities be nullified. These suggestions overlook the cooperative and commendable efforts of those facilities that reached agreements with the state. Those facilities that signed consent agreements with the state should be applauded for striving to be national leaders in the effort to curb the release of harmful pharmaceuticals into drinking water. … Learn More