04.10.18
:: Press Releases :: Energy
ALBANY, NY – More than 8,000 citizen petitions were delivered to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office today, urging him to launch a comprehensive, equitable, and ambitious energy efficiency initiative for New York. The petitions were delivered to the governor’s office following a news conference where speakers representing utility customers, homeowners, environmental advocates, and energy efficiency businesses stressed the importance of a strong state energy-savings target to improve public health, lower energy bills, create local jobs, and avoid the pollution that causes climate change. Cuomo has promised by Earth Day (April […]
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03.19.18
:: Energy
March 9, 2018 Via electronic mail Basil Seggos, Commissioner New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway, 14th Floor Albany, NY 12233-1010 Steve Flint, Division of Air Resources Director New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway, 9th Floor Albany, NY 12233-3250 Re: Grounds for modification, suspension or revocation of CPV Valley Energy Center air permit (Permit ID: 3-3356-00136/00001) Dear Commissioner Seggos and Mr. Flint: I am writing on behalf of Riverkeeper, Inc.—a nonprofit public interest environmental membership organization dedicated to protecting the commercial, recreational, ecological and aesthetic […]
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01.03.18
:: Press Releases :: Energy
Riverkeeper welcomes New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed initiatives to go further than ever before in establishing the Empire State as a national leader in clean energy and reducing our reliance on fossil fuel-generated power.
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12.21.17
:: Press Releases :: Energy
More than 2 dozen environmental, business, labor, developer, and community organizations are members. New industries, thousands of well paying jobs will be created if NY becomes national offshore wind leader while protecting the marine environment. Albany, N.Y. – The New York Offshore Wind Alliance today announced that the nationally prominent environmental group Riverkeeper, which formed 50 years ago to protect the Hudson River, has joined the Alliance and the more than two dozen leading environmental, business, labor, wind industry and community organizations supporting New York State’s effort to become the national […]
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06.01.17
:: Press Releases :: Energy
In response to today’s announcement by President Trump, Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay said: “President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accords makes the U.S. one of the few countries on Earth to altogether dismiss the need for aggressive action on climate change. While the withdrawal has global implications, it will hit us especially hard here at home. New York’s thousands of miles of coastline are already threatened by sea level rise, and the safety of the drinking water for more than 9 million New Yorkers will be […]
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03.28.17
:: Press Releases :: Energy
For immediate release: March 28, 2017 Contact: Cliff Weathers, Communications Director cweathers@riverkeeper.org; 914-478-4501, ext. 239 OSSINING, NY — Riverkeeper issues this statement from its President, Paul Gallay, in response to President Donald Trump’s plan to scrap carbon emissions regulations from fossil-fuel burning electricity plants — particularly those that burn coal: “The President’s decision to strip the Clean Power Plan is a huge step in the wrong direction for our environment. Global warming is an indisputable fact based on peer-reviewed science. Fortunately, New York has clean energy initiatives in place which can take the […]
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