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Riverkeeper, like New York City and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), is dedicated to improving water quality by reducing the levels of sewage pollution in the waters surrounding New York City. We applaud the state and the city’s decision to formally incorporate Green Infrastructure into the city’s long term plans to reduce Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO), which result in nearly 30 billion gallons a year of untreated sewage being discharged into the Hudson, Harlem and East Rivers and New York Harbor annually.

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October 17 kicked off the start of administrative hearings in Albany that are critical to the fate of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. These hearings were initiated by the owner of the plant, Entergy, to dispute the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) landmark denial in April 2010 of a critical and necessary Water Quality Certification for the plant. Without the water quality certification, Indian Point can’t receive a renewed operating license.

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http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/149143/study–indian-point-has-poor-evacuation-plan-for-area

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