Canal Corp. to file new PCB dredging plan for Champlain Canal
The state Canal Corp. intends to issue a new PCB dredging plan for the Champlain Canal on the Hudson River to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the next 90 days. In a statement, the Canal Corp....
View ArticleSea level rise on Hudson up to Troy, state climate change study predicts
By the end of the century, River Street in Troy might be more river than street, flooded by rising sea levels from man-made climate change, according to a report issued late Friday by the state...
View ArticleEPA greenlights General Electric PCB plant dismantle plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection agency has approved a plan by General Electric Co. to take down its PCB processing plant in Fort Edward, Washington County, as part of the end of its six-year dredging...
View ArticleEPA pressed on Hudson River PCB cleanup
A coalition of environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, and the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club on Thursday...
View ArticleSturgeon deaths at Tappan Zee bridge work draw lawsuit threat
The environmental group Riverkeeper is threatening to sue the state and a private construction company for killing too many endangered river sturgeon during the ongoing construction of the new...
View ArticleDEC, Thruway takes joint environmental control on Pilgrim crude oil pipeline
The state Department of Environmental Conservation and Thruway Authority will be taking joint control of the environmental review of the proposed Pilgrim crude oil pipeline under the state...
View ArticleEPA will speed up review of Hudson PCB dredging by General Electric
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sided with proponents of further PCB dredging of the Hudson River by agreeing to speed up its study of whether the six-year dredging project now being...
View ArticleState sued over Adirondack plan for snowmobile, mountain bike use
Two Adirondack environmental groups today filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s approval of a new management plan for the Essex Chain Lakes tract in the central Adirondack Park that would allow use...
View Article$41 million pollution dredging project planned for Hudson River at Rensselaer
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing a $41.3 million project to dredge pollution from the Hudson River at the former BASF industrial dye factory on Riverside Avenue. DEC...
View ArticleDEC pushes feds for more Hudson River PCB testing
Plans by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to test the Hudson River for PCBs potentially left behind by the just-completed, six-year river dredging project are “inadequate,” the state Department...
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