Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment
My colleagues and I like to remind ourselves how, when we first starting hearing murmurs about possible major new gas drilling in upstate New York a little over two years ago, we questioned whether this was an issue in which...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment
In an effort to up the visibility of the Marcellus Shale gas drilling issue, NRDC recently ran this radio spot in Albany and this print ad in the Legislative Gazette in an effort to make sure that the Governor, the...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment
Two quick e-waste updates. First, this week NRDC endorsed the Basel Action Network’s e-Stewards certification program for e-waste recyclers. In a nutshell, the e-Stewards program relies on independent, third-party auditors to verify safe and ethical e-waste disposal, and is awarded...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment
It’s been some time since I last posted on developments in industry’s attack on New York City’s e-waste takeback law (see also here), and there is much to report. Since I wrote back in July that two trade associations had...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
I wrote yesterday about the inadequacy of Chesapeake's decision not to exercise its right to drill in NYC's watershed and the need for the state to impose an across-the-board ban on drilling in that most precious resource. Today a New...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Yesterday evening, Chesapeake Energy Corp. quietly leaked the news that it would not develop the leases it has purchased for natural gas exploration in the New York City watershed - which supplies clean, unfiltered drinking water to 9 million New...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Are you a New Yorker? Do you drink water? Like it free of dangerous chemicals? You may want to read this. Last week, New York State came closer to breaking ground on a controversial gas drilling practice upstate in the...
