Stone Energy Corporation is requesting two permits for Marcellus Shale gas drilling projects in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in the Upper Delaware River watershed. This area has been classified as Special Protection Waters by the Delaware River Basin Commission with "exceptionally high scenic, recreational, ecological and/or water supply values."
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A new article just posted to SSRN examines Best Practices in the field of land use law. The article, “Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practices” is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education. (One can downloand at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540713).
The authors (my colleague Dean Patricia Salkin from Albany Law School and...
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BofA to end $35 overdraft fee on debit purchases
By Hibah Yousuf, staff reporterMarch 10, 2010: 8:38 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Bank of America said Wednesday that it plans to ditch overdraft fees on debit card purchases this summer.
The Federal Reserve recently announced new requirements that are slated to go into effect in July....
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EPA Submits Final Report on First Phase of Hudson River Dredging For Independent Scientific Review; 45-day Public Comment Period Begins Today
Release date: 03/08/2010
Contact Information: Kristen Skopeck (518) 747-4389 or cell (518) 681-2428, skopeck.kristen@epa.gov
(New York, N.Y.) After completing the first phase of dredging PCB-contaminated sediment in the upper Hudson River, EPA today released a detailed...
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Click this link to see how Putnam County fares under the stimulus package.
Putnam County, N.Y. | ProPublica Recovery Tracker.
U.S.
New York
Putnam
Population
304,059,724
19,490,297
99,244
Total recovery funding
$312,735,579,044
$22,244,669,208
$17,655,467
Direct to County
$290,999,413,356
$20,310,238,241
$17,655,467
County Funds per Capita
$957
$1,042
$178
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Medical evidence mounts to support junk food tax
CLEVELAND – New research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests adults tend to eat less junk food as the price increases, and their body weight and overall calorie intake also appear to decrease.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil researched the dietary...
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$2 million in stimulus funds for new Warwick water filtration
WARWICK – More federal stimulus funds are starting to flow and $2 million of that is flowing to the Village of Warwick to correct its problem of a contaminated drinking well.
Congressman John Hall came to the village Monday to announce the grant, which he said...
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Marcellus Shale gas mining discussed at forum
NEW PALTZ – Should natural gas be mined from the Marcellus Shale formation, all safeguards against groundwater contamination must be in place, Congressman Maurice Hinchey told a forum in New Paltz Monday evening.
A panel was organized in part by the SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force for the...
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The New Jim Crow | Mother Jones
Mon Mar. 8, 2010 11:15 AM PST
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating...
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Efforts to restore the Everglades have picked up urgency in the last decade: the sprawling subtropical wetland, the only ecosystem of its kind, is dying for lack of clean water. Many environmentalists remain convinced that Mr. Crist’s deal with United States Sugar, even in its downsized form, offers the Everglades its best hope.
But documents...
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Book Burning Great Success!
We wanted to say that the Book Burning was a great success. It was a success because God's Word was glorified and uplifted. God magnifies His Word above His name, and so do we. The video of the entire service will be up in a few days. We wanted to thank...
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Senator Vince Liebell is fighting and losing aTEA Party Primary against Assemblyman Greg Ball. Ball is something of a Republican folk hero in the Hudson Valley and his presumed victory over RINO Liebell will be a blessing for the GOP. Whether their attacks from from the right or on the left, the RINOS are...
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Virginia attorney general to colleges: End gay protections
RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt...
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Scenic Hudson protects view from FDR home | poughkeepsiejournal.com
HIGHLAND — Scenic Hudson has taken another major step in protecting the view from the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park.
The land preservation group has purchased 160 acres of woodlands directly across the Hudson River from the FDR site, which includes his Springwood...
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11 Things The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway
1 Round haircuts. See you in Hell, Beatles… and/or kids with bowl cuts, surfer cuts or (my favorite) butt cuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads “You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.”
2 Football. At least, the pure version...
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Knolls at Dover project clears key hurdle; hearing set | poughkeepsiejournal.com
DOVER PLAINS — With environmental studies finished, the Knolls of Dover project is on the brink of a start date.
At a recent meeting, the Dover Town Board voted to accept as complete the proposed development's final environmental impact statement.
The Benjamin Companies, a Long Island...
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As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make...
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U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
Fernando Bizerra Jr./European Pressphoto Agency
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, center, in Brazil last fall. The nations agreed to share technical expertise on energy projects.
That includes nearly $15 billion paid to companies that defied American sanctions law by making large investments that helped Iran develop its vast oil...
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