Blog articles by Riverkeeper staff and supporters

On August 11, 2011, after 90 days of deliberation, a seven-member U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) advisory panel released an interim report presenting recommendations to reduce the environmental impacts from shale gas production. The panel’s recommendations may serve as a major turning point in the […] More

How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways (And What Can Be Done to Stop Them) Washington, D.C . –  Today, the Sierra Club released a new report detailing the damage from outdated once-through cooling systems used by power plants in the Gulf of […] More

Today we released our report on sewage contamination in the Hudson River Estuary, “How Is the Water?“ It was a big group effort – 5 years to collect the data and 5 months to write and release the report. I’m sure this will not be […] More

Riverkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and National Parks Conservation Association filed a lawsuit on August 4, 2011 against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) for their failure to comply with federal law by proposing natural gas […] More

In May of this year, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the establishment of the Energy Advisory Board Natural Gas Subcommittee on Fracking Issues to make recommendations on improving the “safety and environmental performance” of hydraulic fracturing in shale formations. Unfortunately, the committee is […] More

*As published on Ecocentric Blog by Kyle Rabin | 08.02.2011 Digital montage by Jamie Leo, based on photos by Alfred T. Palmer (Library of Congress collection), Donncha O. Caoimh and Kyle Rabin. If you ever want to see an Ecocentric writer get all worked up, just mention the […] More

Here is another sneak peek from the upcoming 2011 version of Fractured Communities A leaked New York State Department of Transportation (“DOT”) report suggests that New York is not ready for the 1.5 million additional heavy truck trips each year that could result from shale […] More

Riverkeeper and our science partners from Lamont Doherty and Queens College sampled the affected area from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the Battery on Thursday, 7/21, Friday, 7/22, and Monday, 7/25. Sampling took place in response to a fire and subsequent shutdown of the North […] More

Range Resources (“Range”) has filed a countersuit against a family that sued Range for alleged methane contamination of their water, claiming that the family “conspired to produce misleading test results to get the EPA involved in the case.”[1] Parker County, Texas, residents Steven and Shlya […] More