Tuesday, March 19, 2024
NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: DDEC Announces Completion of Oneida Lake's Historic Cleveland Dock Restoration

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced that the major restoration and rehabilitation of the historic Cleveland Dock Fishing Access Site is complete and the site is now open to the public.
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NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: DEC and NYSERDA Release Proposal to Reduce New York's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Emissions Cap by 30 Percent

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today released proposed regulations to strengthen the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the nation's first regional program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.
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NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: DEC Advises Backcountry Downhill Skiers, Snowboarders, and Others of Avalanche Risk in Adirondack High Peaks Region

Backcountry downhill skiers, snowboarders, and others who may traverse slides and other steep open terrain in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks must be aware of the risk of avalanche, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos advised today.
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NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: DEC Encourages New Yorkers to Complete Survey on St. Lawrence River Watershed to Help Guide Revitalization Plan for Region

St. Lawrence River Watershed Project (leaves DEC website) partners, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), today released a survey seeking input from New Yorkers with knowledge of the watershed.
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NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on New Swastikas Found in Brooklyn Playground

"Swastikas and other disgusting anti-Semitic messages have been found in a Brooklyn playground, days after similarly heinous graffiti was discovered in a school yard in Queens.
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NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: DEC Announces Completion of Annual Aerial Survey of Adirondack Moose

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced the completion of an aerial Adirondack moose survey that takes place each year as part of a collaborative study of the health of New York's moose population.
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Billionaire-funded "green" orgs oppose "billionaire" Trump's EPA nominee

Three organizations funded, in part, by hedge-fund billionaires are opposing Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's nomination to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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$149,000 to aid stormwater runoff projects in Puerto Rico

The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced $149,000 in funding for green infrastructure in San Juan, Puerto Rico’s, Cano Martín Pena community that will improve the city’s water quality through reductions in stormwater runoff.
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Sheildalloy Metallurgical agrees to $5.6 million cleanup at New Jersey site

Sheildalloy Metallurgical Corp. recently signed a $5.6 million legal agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency that will see the company clean up the Sheildalloy Metallurgical Corp. Superfund site in Newfield and Vineland, New Jersey.
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Trump vows action on energy, but modifies stance on climate accord

Donald Trump has vowed to roll back regulations he believes are stifling production of energy, including coal and shale oil and gas.But, in a recent interview, the president-elect suggested a softening of his earlier hard stance against the Paris climate agreement.
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New York, New Jersy water quality improvement efforts get EPA funding assist

The Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded nearly $110,000 to two organizations in New York and New Jersey for projects to improve the water quality in their local communities.
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EPA has $14 million soil treatment plan for New York site

The Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized a $14 million plan to treat contaminated soil at the Vestal Water Supply Well 1-1 Superfund site in Vestal, New York
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L'Oréal USA joins EPA’s Green Power Partnership

L'Oréal USA will work with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase its use of and commitment to green power, which already supplies 33 percent of its energy needs, through the Green Power Partnership.
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Fear over Clean Power Plan stay is having 'deleterious effect' on states, expert says

The U.S. Supreme Court may have stayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP), but the agency’s continued effort to work with states seeking to comply with the halted rule is having a “deleterious effect” on states and regulatory entities.
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RGGI schedules meeting to garner feedback for 2016 Program Review

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Inc. has scheduled a stakeholder meeting for Feb. 2 in Wilmington, Delaware, allowing for public comments for the RGGI participating states’ 2016 Program Review.
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ABM to provide system improvements to make Georgia’s Irwin County school system more sustainable

Facility solutions company ABM will provide Georgia’s Irwin County School System with cost effective improvements to HVAC, lighting and controls systems through its Bundled Energy Solutions (BES) program.
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RGGI announces successful CO2 allowance auction

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a greenhouse gas (GHG) regulatory program undertaken by nine states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, recently announced that this year’s carbon dioxide (CO2) allowance auctions garnered more than $2.3 billion.
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Five Northeast states, D.C., agree to create regional initiative for carbon emissions reductions

Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and the District of Columbia recently announced that they will work together on a carbon emissions reduction strategy based on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
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