Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
First, some good news. Responding to the calls of concerned folks across the state, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation yesterday extended the public comment period until December 31 on its draft environmental impact statement for natural gas drilling in...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
Posted by Kate Sinding in Living Sustainably
Last Friday, hiding behind two trade associations, electronics manufacturers filed suit challenging NYC's e-waste law. The law is based on the producer responsibility, or product stewardship, approach, which holds that manufacturers should be responsible for taking their products back from...continued→
Posted by Kate Sinding in Solving Global Warming
Good news from New York City: Since the last Checker went the way of the old Penn Station, New York has lacked a cab that lives up to New Yorkers’ elevated self-image. Uninspiring Crown Victorias now lumber down Broadway, inadequate substitutes...continued→
