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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 16, 2012 Contact: Julia Church, Clearwater, 845 265 8080 Ext. 7112; [email protected] Kate Slusark, NRDC, 212 727 4592; [email protected] Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914 478 4501, Ext. 239; [email protected] Jay Burgess, Scenic Hudson, 845 473 4440, Ext. 222; [email protected] Powerful public health and economic gains achievable with modest changes to cleanup in 2013 CAPITAL REGION/HUDSON VALLEY — As General Electric wraps up its Hudson River dredging project for the year, a report that shows the process is effectively removing toxic PCB pollution and highlights the need to […]

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to support a rulemaking on its “Waste Confidence Rule.” The first step is a “scoping process” to gather information necessary to prepare the EIS.

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Hurricane Sandy is picking up momentum and expected to reach 80-90 mile per hour winds as the storm progresses into the evening and into tomorrow morning.

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It took nearly 150 years of neglect for the Gowanus Canal to earn the distinction as one of the nation's most extensively polluted waterways. It will take years of complicated effort to clean it.

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It is a day for the history books. Today in public hearings in Tarrytown, Riverkeeper begins making our arguments before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the Indian Point nuclear reactors should be shut down when their original 40-year operating licenses expire.

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For several years, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has been aerating English Kills, the most polluted section of Newtown Creek, in order to increase oxygen levels to acceptable standards, which is crucial to a water body’s health. Soon, the city plans to expand this process throughout the rest of the creek.

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You have until Saturday, Sept. 15 to make a statement for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to consider during the pivotal hearings that will determine the fate of the Indian Point nuclear reactors.

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Responding to the June 8 federal appeals court victory by Riverkeeper and our allies, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted unanimously this week to hold off on deciding whether to relicense Indian Point for 20 more years until it addresses the risks of storing highly radioactive spent fuel at Indian Point and other nuclear power plants across the country.

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Capt. John Lipscomb completed his first Hudson River patrol of 2012 this week, traveling about 500 miles over 10 days, from Riverkeeper's home port in Ossining, to Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, then to Troy and back.

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