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Riverkeeper sues DOT over critically flawed crude-by-rail standards

Riverkeeper is challenging new U.S. Department of Transportation crude-by-rail standards in federal court, saying that they fail to protect the public and the environment from proven threats.

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Oil shipped by rail another safety concern

TZ Bridge Blog: NYS Drops Appeal for Clean Water Funds Money

2,000 volunteers net 40 tons of shoreline trash in a day – Riverkeeper pledges year-round Campaign for a Trash Free Hudson

Riverkeeper is announcing a sustained, year-round campaign to make the waters trash-free after tallying the results of its largest ever shoreline cleanup effort Saturday, May 9 – when 40 tons of debris were removed from the Hudson Valley and New York City shorelines in a single day.

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Riverkeeper’s statement on the environmental review that lays the groundwork for NY’s fracking ban

The Cuomo administration's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) just released its long anticipated environmental review that lays the groundwork for ban of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for natural gas in New York.

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Fire Prompts Renewed Calls to Close the Indian Point Nuclear Plant

Day of Service for the Hudson: Sweep Results Are In

Nick Zachos from Hudson Sloop Club - DG
Thanks to the great effort of more than 2,000 volunteers and dozens of community partners, here’s a recap of the work done on Friday and Saturday, in one hundred locations spanning hundreds of miles of shoreline from Brooklyn to Troy.

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Riverkeeper statement on EPA/NY agreement regarding Tappan Zee and Clean Water funds

Riverkeeper has the following statement in response to today’s announcement of an agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.

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Oil Sheen Visible on Hudson River After Fire at NY Nuclear Plant

Oil spotted in the Hudson River following Indian Point explosion

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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