ITHACA, May 8, 2018 — Over the past two decades, Cargill Inc. has used a series of legal maneuvers to…
Court Declares State Rules for Mega-Farms Illegal, Orders Rewrite — Manure From CAFOs May Spur HABs
ALBANY, May 1, 2018 — The state must rewrite a portion of its manure control program for giant dairy farms…
Nixon Blasts Cuomo for not Killing Incinerator, LPG Storage Projects
GENEVA — Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon announced her opposition Thursday to two proposed industrial projects that have drawn widespread opposition…
Does Albany Have the Will to Protect Finger Lakes from Giant Trash Burner?
A proposal to build the state’s largest trash incinerator in Romulus is now testing whether state government has the political…
Bills in State Senate, Assembly Would Derail Incinerator Permitting Process
A matching pair of new bills in the state Legislature — one sponsored by Republicans in the Senate, the other…
3 State Legislators to Gov. Cuomo: Romulus Incinerator ‘Must Be Stopped’
A waste incinerator proposed for the town of Romulus would have “horrific” long- and short-term consequences for the Finger Lakes…
Hours After CPV’s Major Appeals Court Win, Jury Deadlocks on Bribery Charge Against CPV Exec
New York State’s authority over natural gas pipeline permitting suffered a major blow Mar. 12 when a federal appeals court…
Attorney Extracted ‘Renewable Energy’ Label for Proposed Incinerator, But at a High Price
Over the nine months leading up to the public unveiling of plans to build the state’s largest waste incinerator in…
DEC Overlooks Red Flags for Radioactivity in Landfill Leachate
CAMPBELL, Jan. 23, 2018 — Red flags for dangerously high levels of radioactivity appear in leachate samples from a Southern…
WHAT RADIOACTIVITY? Hakes Landfill Wants More Fracking Waste Imports
CAMPBELL, Jan. 12, 2018 — The state Department of Environmental Conservation this week formally invited oral and written comments on…
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