ALBANY, Oct. 6, 2022 — The state Department of Health published draft rules Wednesday on drinking water limits for 23…
Missing Deadline to Install Fish Screens, Greenidge Plant Begins Sixth Year of Harming Aquatic Life in Seneca Lake
DRESDEN, Oct. 1, 2022 — The Greenidge Generation power plant missed its Sept. 30 state deadline to install fish screens…
Greenidge Faces Liquidity Squeeze After Heavy Borrowing to Buy Latest Bitcoin Mining ‘Rigs’; Stock Sinks Below $2
DRESDEN, Sept. 24, 2022 — Shares of Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. closed below $2 for the first time Friday, as…
DOH Skips Deadlines in Law Requiring Regulations to Limit PFAS in Drinking Water as EPA Sounds Alarm About Risks
ALBANY, Sept. 21, 2022 —The state Department of Health continues to ignore its June 19 legal deadline for announcing draft…
DEC Sees No Environmental Risk in Mercury-Laced Sediment Only Yards From Greenidge’s Proposed Dredging
DRESDEN, Aug. 29, 2022 — Sediment highly contaminated with mercury, lead, PCBs and pesticides lies only a few yards away…
Seneca and Skaneateles Lakes Are Hit With First Toxic Blooms of Summer; Plans Seek to Cut Farming Phosphorus
SKANEATELES, Aug. 18, 2022 — Widespread outbreaks of toxic cyanobacteria were reported across the Finger Lakes this week, including the…
Will Greenidge Face Any Consequences For Missing Its Oct. 1 Deadline to Install Screens on Its Huge Water Intake Pipe?
DRESDEN, Aug. 9, 2022 — For more than five years, Greenidge Generation has skirted a federal law that requires power…
Feds Cite Cargill for ‘Aggravated Conduct’ in Roof Collapse That Killed 2 and Led to Closure of Its 3rd Largest US Salt Mine
(This article has been updated with a comment from a Cargill spokesman, provided one day after the article was first…
Planed Concrete Batching Plant in Rural Yates County Unexpectedly Halted Because Cement Silo Would Be Too Tall
DUNDEE, Aug. 3, 2022 — Plans to build a concrete batching plant on agricultural land on the border of Yates…
Proposed Concrete Plant Between Keuka, Seneca Lakes Sparks Fears: Will There Be Enough Water for the Neighbors?
DUNDEE, Aug. 1, 2022 — Plans to build a concrete batching plant on five acres zoned for agriculture on the…
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