The mouth of the Hutchinson River. Photo by Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia Commons.
New York City Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a meeting to hear from residents about a critical issue: The development of a CSO Long Term Control Plan to reduce the flow of untreated sewage and stormwater that pollutes the river during rainstorms.
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Millions of gallons of crude oil are being moved through the Hudson Valley by barge, ship and train. Riverkeeper has launched a campaign to protect the river and our communities from crude oil spills that have had a destructive impact along the route of this […]
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Today’s freight train derailment in Kingston underscores the point: A new “virtual pipeline” is carrying crude oil straight through the Hudson Valley and bringing with it a whole new level of risk to our safety and our environment. We’ve had enough warnings already. Take action […]
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As the third anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, see this 6-minute highlight video from an October 2013 conference about the lessons for New York and the Indian Point power plant. “There will be ways that Mother Nature, that human mistakes and errors, will […]
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Volunteers at the 2013 Riverkeeper Sweep at Hudson River Park in New York City. (Photo by Abigail Jones / Riverkeeper)
If you are interested in organizing a shoreline cleanup or other service project for the 2014 Riverkeeper Sweep, now is the time to tell us!
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In response to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent “waste confidence” EIS, Mark Leyse, a nuclear safety analyst wrote a report outlining numerous deficiencies with the NRC’s computer simulations of spent fuel pool fires.
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Albany is emerging as a critical hub of a dangerous crude oil "virtual pipeline" snaking from U.S. and Canadian oil fields to refineries on the coasts, and this video tells part of the story.
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Photo courtesy of the Hastings Historical Society
Former site of worst concentration of PCBs on the Hudson to be remediated New York State DEC announced it has reached an agreement with the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), formerly Anaconda Wire & Cable, on a consent order to begin cleaning up contaminated sediment at […]
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1,400: Volunteers who removed more than 38 tons of shoreline trash in a single day during the 2013 Riverkeeper Sweep, our 2nd annual day of service for the river...
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Spent fuel pools holding nuclear waste. (Photo: NRC)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission report on nuclear waste storage at Indian Point and other U.S. reactors is highly deficient, and Riverkeeper has let the NRC know it.
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