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Riverkeeper Assails NRC Report on Nuclear Safety

Task Force Fails to Address Nuclear Waste Storage Risk and Inadequacy of 10 Mile Evacuation Zone Based on our initial review of the … Read More

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS LOOK FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN NYS’ REVISED FRACKING REVIEW

… impacts of fracking thousands of wells across the state, failure to treat toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater and solid waste as hazardous waste, and an inadequate public … Read More

Debunking the Indian Point Energy Myth

… greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Further, nuclear plants produce highly toxic and radioactive nuclear waste that lingers at reactor sites for decades; at Indian Point, this waste is … Read More

An open letter to Journalists on the Comparison of GASLAND to Nazi Propaganda by a member of the Corbett Administration

… are revolting and locking their gates against gas exploration, the New York Times reported that radioactive gas drilling waste was being dumped directly into Pennsylvania’s drinking water … Read More

Nuclear is Not the Answer to our Energy Needs

… Riverkeeper has three major concerns – first, new nuclear plants will produce nuclear waste that is highly toxic for thousands of years without a permanent solution to disposing of it. … Read More

Riverkeeper Takes Critical Step in Fight to Shut Down Indian Point

… critique included: Failure to fully address the environmental impacts of accidental radioactive water leaks from nuclear power plants. Despite the fact that 29 different nuclear … Read More

A Letter from our Indian Point Campaign Team

… mechanical stress. Our third “environmental” contention challenges Entergy’s response to the radioactive water leaks from Indian Point’s deteriorating nuclear waste storage pools. These … Read More

What We Are Testing For

… is just one of the pollutants found in the Hudson River Estuary. Other pollutants include PCBs, radioactive contaminants such as tritium and strontium-90, nutrients such as nitrogen and … Read More

Water Quality Program

… Clean Water Action Agenda calls for: 1) Frequent monitoring and public notification 2) Wastewater infrastructure upgrades 3) Stormwater management 4) Local actions to address local … Read More

Gas Fracking in New York State

… Communities Report News and Press Releases Support Our Watershed New York and Fracking Waste Even though the de facto moratorium on high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing in New … Read More

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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