Posts Tagged ‘drinking water’

Release of turbid water into Lower Esopus Creek is illegal, Riverkeeper contends

Environmental Groups Support Citizen Action, Call for Desalination Plant to Have Its Day in Court

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Riverkeeper Scenic Hudson Contact: Julia Church, Clearwater, 845 265 8080, ext. 7112; [email protected] Tina Posterli, Riverkeeper, 914 478 450… Read More

Upstate vs. Downstate: A Slow Boil Over Water Issues

Save Our Beer!

New York’s water is at risk from industrial gas drilling called fracking. Fracking requires millions of gallons of water, sand, and toxic chemicals pumped deep underground. The gas industry wants to… Read More

City urges protection of aqueducts from frack-induced earthquakes

New Yorkers Chalk Up 2nd Victory in David v. Goliath Fracking Fight

For more information contact: Erica Ringewald, 518-210-9903; [email protected] ALBANY, NY (02/24/2012)–In response to today’s ruling by Justice Donald F. Cerio, Jr. for the Otsego County… Read More

Rockland Water Coalition on Haverstraw Desalination Plant

Get the Facts on United Water’s Proposed Hudson River Desalination Plant

The Rockland Water Coalition is hosting a public information forum about United Water’s proposed Haverstraw Water Project, a desalination plant that would draw as many as 10 million gallons of w… Read More

Environment N.Y. Says Indian Point Threatens Water

Report released on Indian Point and drinking water

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