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2016 Victories for the Hudson and Your Drinking Water

By Paul Gallay on December 7, 2016

Riverkeeper’s 50th Anniversary year has been one of our most successful yet in our efforts to protect the Hudson River, its tributaries and precious drinking water. These “Riverkeeper Victories” are yours as well: our donors, activists and volunteers are the driver of our success. As we look forward to 2017 and beyond, we’ll need you more than ever. Challenges to clean water will continue to mount and Riverkeeper must rise to meet them. More

Message to President-Elect: ‘Our air and water are more valuable than short-term profit’

By Paul Gallay on November 17, 2016

Photo: Gage Skidmore

Here at Riverkeeper, we knew our supporters would rise up to face the challenges ahead, given that our next president has promised deep cuts in environmental regulations. But we didn’t see this coming: A gift to support Riverkeeper’s work, “in honor” of Donald Trump, with […] More

Now’s the time: Help us redouble our efforts for clean water

By Paul Gallay on November 10, 2016

Tuesday’s events have made one thing clear: our environment faces an unremitting assault from fossil fuel interests, polluters, and industrial actors, backed by the full force of the federal government over the next four years. Our next president has promised to cut 70 percent of […] More

Indian Point is falling apart at the seams, and it’s time to shut the plant down

By Paul Gallay on October 3, 2016

Indian Point is falling apart at the seams – literally. The latest malfunction at the 40-year-old nuclear plant is a leak of oil used to lubricate the plant’s turbine. Questions remain about how this happened. But we all know: The time has come and gone […] More

NRC officials admit: Indian Point is not safe as they told us

By Paul Gallay on May 5, 2016

Photo: Indian Point, Leah Rae / Riverkeeper

Yesterday, we learned that Entergy and staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had not done a proper estimate of the damage that an accident at Indian Point would create. More

State of the Hudson and our water supply

By Paul Gallay on April 12, 2016

Fifty years after its founding, Riverkeeper fights alongside thousands of citizen scientists and activists to reclaim the Hudson and ensure that over 9 million New Yorkers have clean, safe drinking water. More

The “careful, thoughtful” approach to Indian Point is to close it

By Paul Gallay on April 5, 2016

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Projections for future electricity demand have declined sharply in recent years.

A deluge of problems continue to plague Indian Point. It's time for leaders to step up and call for it to close. More

From nuts to bolts: Why the NRC must ground BOTH Indian Point reactors

By Paul Gallay on April 1, 2016

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We just dodged a bullet with Indian Point 2. Had this reactor not been offline for refueling, the bolts in the reactor core would continue their decay and would have posed a more of a danger to the 20 million people who live and work in the 50-mile Indian Point “evacuation zone.” More

Get angry about climate change

By Paul Gallay on February 29, 2016

Does climate denial make you angry? Show it by selecting facebook's new anger emoji when you like/share this post. More

Clarkson MSEM students practice instructor ‘preach’ of environmental sustainability

By Riverkeeper on January 22, 2016

It's very exciting to see graduate engineering management students take the principles of environmental sustainability and apply them to the field. More

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