01.24.12
:: Safeguard Drinking Water
Courtesy of Ecocentric 2012 may be the most heavily-predicted year in recorded history. Barring any cataclysmic events, we at Ecocentric would like to share a humble list of predicted trends for 2012 in the areas we follow closely: namely, Food, Water and Energy (Fwenergy, if you will). And while there are no doomsday scenarios, not everything looks rosy for 2012. That being said, here are 12 trends we see in ’12 (with baker’s dozen megatrend thrown in for good luck): Food 1. Embrace your inner wonk, because 2012 is certain […]
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01.23.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: New York Times - Dot Earth
01.20.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Dimock, PA residents, whose wells were contaminated by Cabot Oil & Gas’s fracking operations, will receive some relief today when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delivers clean water to four of the eleven families that have been victims of irresponsible fracking.
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01.17.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: NASDAQ
01.17.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: The Daily Bedford
01.12.12
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
As the comment period on New York State’s fracking proposals come to a close, Riverkeeper announced today that it has submitted a detailed letter to the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) highlighting six fundamental flaws in the revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) and draft high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) regulations that pose a major threat to the NYC Watershed.
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01.12.12
:: Fracking/Gas Drilling
This morning, thanks to many of you, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) woke up to tens of thousands of comments on its flawed fracking proposal. Riverkeeper submitted three sets of comments, all of which conclude that New York State’s fracking proposal is too fatally flawed to move forward.
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01.11.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Mid-Hudson News
01.11.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Associated Press
01.10.12
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After two drafts, significant aspects of environmental impact statement still so deficient that it must be redone. New York, NY, January 10, 2012 – Catskill Mountainkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Riverkeeper, Inc. announced today that, after extensive evaluation and technical expert review, they have concluded that the state must go back and revisit significant aspects of its revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (RDSGEIS) before fracking can move forward. Tomorrow, the groups are submitting over 500 pages of joint comments […]
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