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01.04.12 :: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling

Crunch Time on Fracking: Make Your Voice Heard!

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Riverkeeper has been a leader in the effort to prevent New York from fracking with our water – and we need your help to win the fight. It’s a critical moment in our campaign, as public pressure mounts on the Governor and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to rethink their flawed plans for gas drilling in the state.

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01.03.12 :: Rvk in the Press :: The Daily Chappaqua

Riverkeeper Sees Environmental Victories in 2012

01.03.12 :: Rvk in the Press :: The Wall Street Journal

Official: NYC like ‘occupying nation’ in watershed

01.02.12 :: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling

Their Wells Contaminated by Hydrofracking, 11 Families in Dimock, PA Receive Huge Delivery of Bottled Water

Eleven families in this tiny rural town, 30 miles south of Binghamton, NY, have received the most basic of holiday gifts: Clean drinking water.

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12.23.11 :: Rvk in the Press :: Daily Freeman

Require permit for Ashokan water releases, locals urge state

12.21.11 :: Rvk in the Press :: WOR

Joe speaks to Kate Hudson from River Keeper about Fracking

12.21.11 :: Latest Developments :: Safeguard Drinking Water

Lower Esopus Stakeholders Propose Approach to Ashokan Reservoir Releases that Benefit Both Creek Health and Flood Mitigation

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Riverkeeper, the Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership, more than five municipalities, the Ulster County planner, and other partner stakeholders have submitted comments and recommendations to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) responding to DEC’s and New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) proposed Interim Ashokan Release Protocol to guide releases from the Ashokan Reservoir to the lower Esopus Creek.

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12.20.11 :: Rvk in the Press :: Huff Post Green

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Crunch Time on Fracking: Make Your Voice Heard!

Riverkeeper Sees Environmental Victories in 2012

Official: NYC like ‘occupying nation’ in watershed

Their Wells Contaminated by Hydrofracking, 11 Families in Dimock, PA Receive Huge Delivery of Bottled Water

Require permit for Ashokan water releases, locals urge state

Joe speaks to Kate Hudson from River Keeper about Fracking

Lower Esopus Stakeholders Propose Approach to Ashokan Reservoir Releases that Benefit Both Creek Health and Flood Mitigation

Will New Yorkers Veto Cuomo’s Fracking Guidelines?

NYC still muddying Esopus Creek

Will Community Bans on Hydrofracking Hold Up?

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