05.18.15
:: Press Releases :: Crude Oil Transport
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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05.16.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: MSNBC
05.14.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Rockland County Times
05.14.15
:: Get Involved
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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05.14.15
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
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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05.13.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: The New York Times
05.12.15
:: Docket
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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05.12.15
:: Press Releases :: Preserve River Ecology
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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05.12.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Common Dreams
05.12.15
:: Rvk in the Press :: Daily Mail