ALBANY, July 24, 2019 — Proposed new state rules that set maximum contamination levels for three carcinogenic pollutants commonly found…
Cayuga Hit With 33 Toxic Algal Blooms; None Reported Yet on Seneca, Canandaigua, Skaneateles or Owasco
ITHACA, July 18, 2019 — In the opening days of the toxic algae season that is expected to intensify and…
Proposed Galvanizing Mill in Romulus Touted as Environmentally Benign, but Details are Sketchy, Doubters Wary
ROMULUS, July 15, 2019 — While plans to build a $365 million garbage incinerator on a site at the former … More
Brace for Toxic Algae Blooms: Warm, Calm Summer After Wet Spring Means ‘Very Busy Year,’ Expert Predicts
SYRACUSE, July 6, 2019 — The first suspicious algal blooms of the season have been reported on Conesus, Honeoye, Otisco…
Vote on Bill to Close Oil & Gas Industry’s Hazardous Waste Loophole Skipped Over in Closing Hours of Legislative Session
ALBANY, June 21, 2019 — A bill to close the oil and gas industry’s hazardous waste loophole died early this…
New York’s Fracking Waste Loophole Faces Major Test
(UPDATED JUNE 20, 1:15 pm) ALBANY, June 19, 2019 — The oil and gas industry is days — perhaps hours…
Hakes Landfill’s Expansion Application Calls for New Limits on Screening for Radionuclides and No Tests for Radon
CORNING, May 31, 2019 — Hakes C&D Landfill Inc. plans to quit screening for two key markers of radioactivity in…
Cuomo Signs Into Law Bill That Bans Garbage Incinerators in Finger Lakes
ALBANY, May 24, 2019 — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today signed into law a bill that bans development of new…
Cayuga Power Plant Wants to Shut Down, Convert to Power-Hungry Data Center
LANSING, May 17, 2019 — The Cayuga Generating Co. power plant, one of the state’s two remaining coal-fired facilities, announced…
Is Cuomo Waffling on His Opposition to Trash Incinerator in the Finger Lakes?
ROMULUS, May 14, 2019 — Two months after both chambers of the state Legislature unanimously passed a bill to ban…