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Riverkeeper Announces Major Victories in Battle Against Indian Point

… fighting to force Indian Point to upgrade to a closed-loop cooling system to protect Hudson River fisheries. Last month, we submitted formal comments urging the DEC to deny the certification based … Read More

Riverkeeper Hails New York’s Decision to Deny Critical Water Quality Certificate for Indian Point

… not violate state water quality standards. Citing the plant’s adverse impact on Hudson River fisheries, as well as the continuing leaks of radioactive waste into the groundwater and the Hudson … Read More

1960’s

… A group of fishermen meet to bemoan the pollution of the Hudson River and the destruction of its fisheries. Fisherman and Sports Illustrated writer Bob Boyle informs them about the Refuse Act of … Read More

Riverkeeper Applauds Interstate Fishery Commission Protection of Shad

… Fishery Management Plan for Shad and River Herring. To protect coast-wide shad populations, shad fisheries will be closed except in states that demonstrate through research that their commercial … Read More

Riverkeeper Applauds ASMFC Approval of American Shad Amendment

… Fishery Management Plan for Shad and River Herring. To protect coast-wide shad populations, shad fisheries will be closed except in states that demonstrate through research that their commercial … Read More

RvK Supports Shad Recovery

… of Environmental Conservation (DEC) supporting the closure of the Hudson River American shad fisheries and restrictions on American shad fishing in the Delaware River. Despite Governor … Read More

Mid-Hudson

… slideshow Links Improving Hudson River Water Quality Aging Infrastructure & Sewage Fisheries Management « The Highlands The Islands » Read More

The Battle Over Dredging – A Timeline

… as a Superfund site under the Superfund law. May, 1985 – DEC closes commercial striped bass fisheries in New York Harbor and waters off western Long Island. July 15, 1993 – DEC tells GE … Read More

Saving the River’s Fish

… More Fisheries Management The fish of the Hudson River support recreational and commercial fisheries along the Atlantic coast worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and until recently, they … Read More

Heads of Leading Environmental Organizations Outline Bold Vision for Quadricentennial Decade

… Valley residents can once again eat local fish without health concerns and limited commercial fisheries can thrive; 3. completion of General Electric’s cleanup of toxic PCBs it dumped in the … Read More

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