The Status of Jamaica Bay
A year after creating the Jamaica Bay Watershed Protection Plan, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a status report charting the improvements made to the city’s wastewater treatment and disposal and the long term goals of the plan.
Cement plant landfill pollutes Hudson River
A New York-based environmental group said a cement plant landfill near the Catskill Mountains is dumping pollutants as caustic as household bleach into wetlands that feed the Hudson River
River is now new frontier
When Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609, the waterway became a thoroughfare to explore the continent and exploit its resources.
After 10 Years, Tract Wins Protective Status
THE decade-long efforts of a homeowners’ group, town officials in Cortlandt and a developer have finally resulted in the preservation of one of the last large unprotected tracts of open space in the county.
Council votes for stormwater plan; mayor pushes new recycling effort
Environmental concerns were on the front burner in the city yesterday, with the City Council unanimously passing a stormwater management plan hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new effort to encourage recycling.
EPA: City water is clean
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he usually toasts with red wine, but he switched to tap water yesterday, when the federal government announced the city won’t need to filter its drinking water from the Catskills and the Delaware Valley for at least the next 10 years.