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… 450 staff participating. HSBC volunteers have joined us on the Hudson River, East River, and along Newtown Creek. Thank you to HSBC for supporting Riverkeeper and your local waterways! Read More

… clothing, food packaging, paints — but among them were also apparent microbeads. Plastics from Newtown Creek carried heavy doses of atlenol, a drug used to treat high blood pressure.” In … Read More

… 135 opportunities for restoration on New York City’s waterways: Flushing Waterways Vision Newtown Creek Vision Read More

… and launched community-driven Vision Plans for two long-suffering waterways in New York City: Newtown Creek and Flushing Bay and Creek. The plans are brimming with possibility, detailing 135 … Read More

… plans have focused on smaller waters, including Bronx River, Flushing Bay, Gowanus Canal, and Newtown Creek. The state has signed off on all of them (except for Jamaica Bay’s plan, which is … Read More

… staff, we have the opportunity to see many stretches of the Hudson River and its tributaries from Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal in New York City, to Rondout Creek, Saw Mill River, and the Roe … Read More

… envision not only a beach in Manhattan, but restored salt marsh ecosystems in Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, a vibrant waterfront in Flushing Bay, and recreation along the Bronx and East … Read More

… Plant Park on the Bronx River, and so on. At two dead-end streets in Brooklyn, at the shoreline of Newtown Creek, volunteers put the number at 750. Sweep leader Lisa Bloodgood of Newtown Creek … Read More

… river ecosystems. I came armed with stories of precedent-setting cases like Storm King; ExxonMobil/Newtown Creek; Riverkeeper/Waterkeeper v. Pruitt; and Indian Point, to illustrate the wide range of … Read More