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Riverkeeper Shares Achievement Award for Work to Revitalize Newtown Creek

Out on Newtown Creek
Riverkeeper, Newtown Creek Alliance, and Greenpoint Manufacturing & Design Center shared the American Planning Association (APA) New York Chapter 2012 Meritorious Achievement Award for their work on the Newtown Creek Brownfield Opportunity Area Nomination Report.

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GE Must Expand Hudson River Dredging Next Year to Clean Up More Polluted Riverbed, Following Report that Shows Process is Working

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 16, 2012 Contact: Julia Church, Clearwater, 845 265 8080 Ext. 7112; [email protected] Kate Slusark, NRDC, 212 727 4592; [email protected] Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914 478 4501, Ext. 239; [email protected] Jay Burgess, Scenic Hudson, 845 473 4440, Ext. 222; [email protected] Powerful public health and economic gains achievable with modest changes to cleanup in 2013 CAPITAL REGION/HUDSON VALLEY — As General Electric wraps up its Hudson River dredging project for the year, a report that shows the process is effectively removing toxic PCB pollution and highlights the need to […]

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VIDEO: Democracy Now! and Riverkeeper Tour NYC Waterfront After Superstorm Sandy, Sewage Leaks

Riverkeeper: Oil spill in Kingston’s Rondout Creek is worse than officials acknowledge

Riverkeeper: Report storm pollution

Up Shits Creek: Sandy Is A Toxic Shit Storm For Greenpoint, Too (Caution: Standing Water Is Unsafe)

Sandy leaves ecological damage in its wake

Hurricane Sandy Spills Sewage, Triggers Toxic Troubles

Simple Answers to Common Questions about the Gowanus Canal Cleanup

It took nearly 150 years of neglect for the Gowanus Canal to earn the distinction as one of the nation's most extensively polluted waterways. It will take years of complicated effort to clean it.

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Lower Esopus tentatively put on pollution list

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