ALBANY, Mar 25, 2024 — A lawsuit filed today against Seneca Meadows Inc. and the state Department of Environmental Conservation…
KEEPING SECRETS: DEC Stalls FOIL Requests for Gravel Mine Documents Long Hidden From Local Officials
WATKINS GLEN, Mar. 21, 2024 — When a state agency is determined to keep secrets, it takes more than a…
Ontario Landfill Systems Damaged by November Landslide Won’t Be Fixed for Another Two Months, Casella Tells DEC
STANLEY, Mar. 13, 2024 — Damages to gas extraction and leachate control systems caused by a landslide four months ago…
Firm Planning Drilling Spree in Southern Tier Goes Silent as Lawmakers Seek to Ban Use of CO2 in Quest for Gas
(UPDATED WITH THE LATEST STATUS OF BILLS SEEKING TO BLOCK CO2 GAS DRILLING) BINGHAMTON, Feb. 26, 2024 — The scientists…
Neighbors of High Acres Landfill Renew Odor Complaints in Green Amendment Case, Rebutting DEC and Letitia James
PERINTON, Feb. 23, 2024 — Do courts have authority to rule on whether the state’s failure to abate air pollution…
Seggos Quitting as DEC Commissioner After 8-Year Tenure, Leaving Mixed Environmental Legacy in Finger Lakes
ALBANY, Feb. 22, 2024 — Basil Seggos confirmed late yesterday that he’s stepping down as Commissioner of the state Department…
While Gravel-Filled Trucks Must Pass Dangerous Curve, DEC Doesn’t Require Truck Traffic Analysis for Gravel Mine Expansion
WATKINS GLEN, Feb. 19, 2024 — What does a 1948 Bugatti 35A race car have in common with a dump…
DEC’s Insistence on Feb. 28 Cutoff for Comments on Gravel Mine Seen as Part of 16-Year Pattern of Obstructing Citizens
(UPDATED at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 19 with letter from Schuyler County’s state Legislators demanding a 90-day extension of the DEC’s…
Casella Sues Town of Thurston to Try to Annul Local Law Banning the Spread of Municipal Sewage Sludge on Fields
THURSTON, Feb. 16, 2024 — A unit of Casella Waste Systems Inc. filed suit late yesterday against the Town of…
DEC Kept Local Officials in the Dark for 16 Years As It Weighed Versions of Plans to Expand Padua Ridge Gravel Mine
(Updated with Schuyler County Legislature vote). WATKINS GLEN, Feb. 12, 2024 — On the eve of two state-sponsored public hearings…