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M.E.: ID, cause of death pending on body found near river

Catskill cement plant fined $50K by NY for letting leachate get into Hudson River

Cement plant owner fined $50,000

Kingston’s Rondout Creek stained by fuel oil spill (video)

Sandy’s Devastating Impact to Hudson River Includes Widespread Toxic Spills

The impact of Sandy's storm surge is enormous, causing widespread pollution of the Hudson River and New York Harbor by a variety of toxic chemicals, including petroleum and fluids from cars and boats; contaminants from flooded subways, roads, parking lots and tunnels; and contaminants washed from shoreline industrial sites, as well as commercial and residential buildings.

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Riverkeeper Announces Victory in Enforcing Watershed Laws That Protect Water Quality

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 914-478-4501 x 239, [email protected] Tip from citizen watchdog leads to cleanup of junkyard sites in West-of-Hudson Watershed Ossining and White Plains, NY – September 6, 2012 – Riverkeeper announced today that a citizen watchdog tip and its own investigation led to New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) requiring the cleanup of a junkyard operation in the West-of-Hudson watershed town of Fleischmanns, located just outside of the Catskill Forest Preserve. A citizen watchdog reported discharges of auto fluids from junkyards into bodies of […]

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Riverkeeper, Our Friends on the River

Environmental leaders inspect GE PCB cleanup

New Law Requires Public Water-Quality Updates on Sewage Dumping

New York Mandates Alerts on Sewage Discharges

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