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The Hudson River Posts
- Hudson River Sloop Clearwater’s Dredging Fact Sheet
- Next Hudson River CAG Meeting Set for End of September
- Raw Sewage From Cohoes Flowing Into the Hudson
- Canal Corporation Responds To Dredging Report
- EPA Clean Water Strategy Lacks Real Teeth
- Power Line Project Under Hudson Takes Next Step
- Natural Gas Pipeline Under Hudson Being Considered
- Public Hearing Set for Edgewater Superfund Site
- Public Radio Audio Reports Available on PCBs and Dredging
- High Levels of Enterococcus Bacteria Found By Riverkeeper
- Current Moonphase on The Hudson River
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Hudson River Sloop Clearwater’s Dredging Fact Sheet
For anyone who’s in need of reality adjustment. Hand puppets, take note – Hudson Clearwater’s Dredging Fact Sheet The Hudson River is the largest federal Superfund site in the US, covering a 200 mile stretch. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) dumped by … Continue reading
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Oyster Restoration Site Is Forced To Close Down: Paranoia, Good Sense Or Something Else Altogether?
By KIRK MOORE of the Asbury Park Press KEYPORT – Even as scuba divers wearing bright yellow air tanks dismantled their oyster restoration site, workers with the NY / NJ Baykeeper said Monday they still hoped for a last-minute reprieve … Continue reading
Posted in The Hudson River, conservation, estuary, fishing, preservation, shellfish, toxic waste
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August on the Hudson River
Courtesy of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation We think of August as a fairly uniform time of languid days, warm sun, gentle breezes, and singing cicadas and katydids. However, compared year-to-year, August is a month of contrasts. … Continue reading
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Tagged August, blue crab, bluefish, boats, canal, canoes, conservation, crab, crabbing, crabs, DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation, education, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, estuary, fauna, fish, fishing, flora, flounder, Gulf Stream, history, Hudson River, kayaks, New York, new york state department of environmental conservation, recreation, rivers, summer, weakfish, wildlife
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Florida Court Rules Polluters Can Be Sued By Fishermen
Well, well, well… It looks like the hand puppets might be a tad busy soon and we’re lovin’ it. I wonder if the New York fishing industry has already tried a class-action suit against General Electric for ruining their livelihoods. … Continue reading
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Real-Time Monitoring of the Hudson Moves Forward
From DredgingToday.com BEACON, NY (6/25) – Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries announced that it has deployed its first of many real-time monitoring stations that will monitor the northern reaches of the Hudson River. Launched in cooperation with General Electric … Continue reading
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Water Quality Should Be Top Priority
By ALINE REYNOLDS for the Downtown Express Over 100 concerned New Yorkers from all over the city convened at Murry Bergtraum High School last Thursday evening to discuss ways in which City Planning can improve the New York-area harbor and … Continue reading
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Baykeeper Urges DEP to Lift Ban on Oyster Restoration Project
I wonder if General Electric and their hand puppets are learning anything from watching BP’s oil spill disaster unfold in the Gulf of Mexico? – Hudson By JACQUELINE HLAVENKA (staff writer for Greater Media Newspapers) The NY / NJ Baykeeper … Continue reading
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Helping To Protect Our Waterways: An Interview With Robert Kennedy Jr.
This is the real deal in terms of moral fortitude (General Electric and associated hand puppets, take note) – Hudson By SARAH VAN GELDER for Yes Magazine Whose job is it to protect our waterways? Water quality laws and enforcement … Continue reading
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Tagged 1888 Rivers and Harbors Act, Behan Communications, clean water act, contamination, drinking water, GE, general electric, Hudson River, Hudson River Fishermen’s Association, Mark Behan, New York, NYSE: GE, NYSE:GE, pollution, Riverkeeper, Rivers and Harbors Act, Robert Kennedy Jr., toxic waste, Water Keeper, water quality
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Kayak and Canoe Launch Site Unveiled
By MELANIE LEKOCEVIC of Hudson-Catskill Newspapers ATHENS — With more than two dozen residents, business leaders, state and local officials attending, Mayor Andrea Smallwood on Friday unveiled the much-anticipated Fourth Street Kayak and Canoe Launch. The project has been years … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, boating, boats, canoe, canoes, Catskill-Olana Mitigation Fund, DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of State, estuary, Hudson River, kayak, kayaks, New York, new york state department of environmental conservation
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BP Oil Disaster and the Hudson River Valley
The golf balls in the Hudson bit made me cringe a bit. Mostly because I could see it happening that way with the fur-lined hand puppets all cheering how great life was… – Hudson By SARAH BRADSHAW of the Poughkeepsie … Continue reading
Posted in Renewable Energy, conservation, drinking water, estuary, oil spill
Tagged BP, British Petroleum, Cary Institute, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, contamination, Gulf of Mexico, Hudson River, Millbrook, New York, oil, oil disaster, oil spill, Poughkeepsie, Scenic Hudson, wetlands
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