Over the past month, we’ve been extremely successful at getting the word out about the work that Riverkeeper is doing on hot button environmental issues at both the national and local levels.
Our presence in these stories shows that Riverkeeper is making a difference in protecting the health of the Hudson and the drinking water that 9 million New Yorkers rely on.
These articles demonstrate that it is a critical time in the fight for clean water.
This Associated Press article features the release of Riverkeeper’s Fractured Communities report (PDF 5.2MB), a first-of-its-kind report on the environmental impacts of gas drilling.
Paul Gallay, Executive Director and Hudson Riverkeeper, writes in The Journal News about what we need now to protect the Hudson from pollution.
A New York Times piece highlighting Riverkeeper’s perspective about Entergy’s outdated once-through cooling water system and another that echoes our position that we should fight back against obsolete technology that kills over a billion aquatic organisms every year.
This New York Times editorial supports Riverkeeper’s stance in insisting that GE extend the project’s duration and commit to finishing the full cleanup of toxic PCBs from the Hudson River.
New York Times reporter Mia Navarro patrols Newtown Creek on the R. Ian Fletcher and writes about the Greenpoint oil spill, which was uncovered by Riverkeeper in 2002.