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The Hudson River needs you. Governor Cuomo and State agencies involved are bent on pushing through a plan to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge at breakneck speed, while refusing to answer the public’s tough questions about cost, mass transit, impacts to the Hudson River and even the fundamental question of whether we need a new bridge in the first place.

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Riverkeeper will be filing detailed comments about the Tappan Zee Bridge draft Environmental Impact Statement before the public comment deadline on March 30. These are some of our top concerns.

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Riverkeeper and partner Waterkeeper Alliance organizations in the region submitted comments to the EPA (HYPERLINK TO COMMENTS) expressing extreme concern about the agency’s draft Recreational Water Quality Criteria (RWQC), which would set a new baseline for states to follow in setting standards for waters classified as suitable for swimming.

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New York City has proposed a plan to respond to sewage pollution in the Newtown Creek, and a comment period ending March 9 is the public’s best chance to ask tough questions about it.

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In response to today's ruling by Justice Donald F. Cerio, Jr. for the Otsego County Supreme Court, the New York Water Rangers released the following statement

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A contribution now helps Riverkeeper at a pivotal moment, on the eve of this summer's Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings that will decide the fate of the nuclear reactors that kill 1 billion fish and other living creatures annually and threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the region.

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United Water New York, the company that supplies most of Rockland County’s drinking water, has proposed building a desalination plant it calls the Haverstraw Water Supply Project.

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In response to the ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey, the New York Water Rangers released the following statement:

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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has made it clear it intends to issue a finalized Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) this spring, which means that fracking could move forward under the state’s flawed proposal as early as this summer.

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