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Wallkill River’s future debated

Joint Effort to Investigate Underwater Hazards at Ossining’s Hudson River Beach

On Saturday, April 25, police dive team will investigate remnants of 50-year-old swimming dock

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Is a Bomb Train Rolling Through Your Community?

When the nays have it

Enviro Groups Call DOT’s Oil Train Speed Limit ‘Toothless’

Video: ‘A Danger on Rails’

Rockland Water Coalition to receive the EPA’s highest honor

Grassroots group that successfully opposed United Water’s plans to build a desalination plant on the Hudson River will be honored at April 24 ceremony

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Battle to Remove PCBs Heads Down River to Beacon

As water main breaks rise, cities to get state help

Response to Department of Transportation’s Toothless Emergency Order Regarding “Bomb Trains”

For Immediate Release: April 17, 2015 Contact:Cliff Weathers, Communications Director, Riverkeeper 914-478-4501, Ext. 239 Matt Krogh, Director, Extreme Oil Campaign, ForestEthics 360-734-2951 Riverkeeper and ForestEthics Respond to Department of Transportation’s Toothless Emergency Order Regarding “Bomb Trains” Advocacy groups call on the DOT to do much more to prevent oil-by-rail disasters. OSSINING, NY— The Department of Transportation just issued an emergency order requiring trains transporting certain types of crude oil to slow down to 40 mph in certain agency-defined large urban areas. The speed limit in the emergency order is less […]

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