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$200 million in drinking water and sewer infrastructure grants
Our message got through on the need to invest NOW in clean water. New York communities can tap $200 million in state matching grants for clean water infrastructure over a three-year period under a budget agreement between the state legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Read how Albany’s commitment to clean water will help cash-strapped communities >
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Fracking waste: Despite the fracking ban, NYers are still at risk
Get the facts on the use of low-volume fracking waste as a de-icer on roads, and the dumping of out-of-state high-volume fracking waste in New York landfills. Staff Attorney Misti Duvall of Riverkeeper’s Watershed Program and Elizabeth Moran of Environmental Advocates of New York discuss how—despite a state ban on fracking—New York permits Pennsylvania to dispose of radioactive fracking waste inside our borders.
Listen to the audio discussing how fracking waste is dumped in New York >
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NTSB sounds alarm again on oil trains — When will government act?
Even the government acknowledges that our leaders are moving too slowly on this critically important issue. A series of disastrous derailments, oil spills and explosions continue to make the risks compellingly clear.
Read our blog regarding the NTSB's warnings on crude oil transport >
Riverkeeper in the Press
04.01.15 :: WAMC Radio
$200 million in sewer and water infrastructure funding praised
“Local municipalities struggling against the 2 percent tax cap, trying to keep budgets down will be able to get up to $5 million in any given year to foster projects that may have been left languishing because of budgetary pressures...so the need’s enormous and this isn’t a frill. This is pretty foundational.”
– Paul Gallay, Riverkeeper President
04.02.15 :: EcoWatch
States fail to properly manage fracking waste, says groundbreaking report
“This report illuminates the dirty secret of oil and gas development—what to do with the enormous amount of waste generated each year. In New York, problems with the improper reuse and disposal of oil and gas waste persist despite the ban on high-volume fracking.”
– Misti Duvall, Riverkeeper Staff Attorney
04.06.15 :: Capital NY
Stirring trouble
Riverkeeper Special Projects Director Kate Hudson is featured in an article regarding reservoir releases to reduce turbidity in the New York City water system and their impact on downstream communities and the environment.
04.04.15 :: Daily Freeman
Kingston mayor, Town of Ulster supervisor differ on prospects for state infrastructure money
“By investing $200 million in our aging water infrastructure, New York leaders cast a big vote for healthy communities and rivers that teem with wildlife, not pollution. Our thanks go out to them for it.”
– Paul Gallay, Riverkeeper President
03.26.15 :: Times Herald-Record
Thruway Authority adds to TZB war chest
The New York State Thruway Authority boosted its legal fund by approving $300,000 to be used as necessary by its counsel in defending a lawsuit brought in October by Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance and Environmental Advocates of New York regarding the use of federal Clean Water Act funds to help finance the new Tappan Zee Bridge.
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