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At its annual Summer Splash gala at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, N.Y., Riverkeeper will celebrate two Hudson River champions Riverkeeper will celebrate and honor the work of Fran Dunwell, recently retired coordinator of the New York State Hudson River Estuary Program, and Dr. David Carpenter, PCBs expert and Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany – SUNY, during the organization’s 2nd Annual Summer Splash gala at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison. Dunwell, who retired in August last year, will receive […]

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Stella Blue’s Band is excited to announce the fourth annual Free Dead in the Park concert to benefit Riverkeeper, presented by The Capitol Theatre and RYTHM Cannabis.

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Riverkeeper commends Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature for passing a state budget that allocates significant environmental funding and supports policy wins including significant staffing increases for the Department of Environmental Conservation. • $500 million for the Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which will help communities across the state upgrade their aging water infrastructure. The CWIA’s investment in New York’s water infrastructure has now reached $5 billion since the program’s inception in 2017. • $400 million for the Environmental Protection Fund, which will support a variety of environmental programs, […]

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In Riverkeeper’s annual day of service for the Hudson, more than 1,400 volunteers will remove trash and foster healthy vegetation along the shorelines. Contact: Leah Rae, [email protected], 914-715-6821 More than 1,400 volunteers are expected to turn out on May 6 for the 12th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a daylong effort to clean up shorelines throughout New York City and the Hudson Valley, from Staten Island to the Adirondack Mountains. An interactive map of 120 project locations is available at Riverkeeper.org/sweep. Riverkeeper organizes the annual event as a day of service to […]

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As one of Mission Blue's "Hope Spots," the New York - New Jersey Harbor Estuary is "evidence of what people can do when they care and when people put in the work for a better place for nature and for humans," Dr. Silvia Earle says.

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Holtec, the firm responsible for decommissioning the Indian Point nuclear plant, is holding off on its planned discharges of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson in May. According to the Decommissioning Oversight Board chair, the decision will allow time to independently analyze the spent fuel pool water before it is released, and allow time for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to answer important questions raised by Senators Schumer and Gillibrand. “Holtec’s decision to pause its hastily planned release of 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River demonstrates the power […]

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Holtec adds insult to injury with early discharge plan Holtec, the firm responsible for decommissioning the Indian Point nuclear power plant, has informed the Indian Point Energy Center Decommissioning Oversight Board that it intends to begin releasing radioactive wastewater from the plant into the Hudson River in May, at the start of the recreation season. This is three months earlier than the timetable described by Holtec during a meeting February 2 with the oversight board. As public outrage increases over the planned discharges of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River, […]

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