Radium contamination in Pennsylvania wells, part of the New York Times series on natural gas hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has finally hit the big time. Not only did t… [...]
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This past Saturday evening saw a most wonderful, and sad, event. Kent residents Roy Volpe and Susan Gamache held an open-house in memory of Peter Rossi who passed on last week after his wake at the Beecher Funeral home in Brewster. More than three score traveled from up and down the east coast gathering together to reminisce about Peter and his life, especially his contributions to the cultural and social justice worlds we inhabit here in Putnam County. [...] At Pine Hill Books we are supporting the Ulster County Health Program by presenting a display of books on medicinal herbs, native healing, growing your own herbs. An open round table… [...] Last week, the Millbrook-based Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies issued a report about the forests of the northeast United States and whether they could ever replace fossil fuels as our main s… [...] The Delaware River Basin Committee will be taking its draft regulations for gas drilling to the people this week at three sites in Pennsylvania and New York. We wrote about the meeting dates and times in an earlier post: The public hearings will be hel… [...] Orange County lawmakers approve federal grants for energy efficiency projects GOSHEN – After much debate, the Orange County Legislature approved funding of local projects to improve energy efficiency in government buildings. Legislature Chairman Michael Pillmeier said the program is two-fold. “Round one is you have to get the grant to do the audit to see what your facility needed to be updated – new electric lights, windows, doors, whatever; now this is the final round and the county has four projects that it wants to do and there is $721,274 left over in this round that’s not being used. So, we want to hand it out to local municipalities and school districts.” A number of projects have already been undertaken by local municipalities in Orange County. via Orange County lawmakers approve federal grants for energy efficiency projects. “Hay, a former Marine and successful, self-made businessman who grew up in foster care…” The only thing missing in Cara Matthews’ article is that he turned a barrel of water into wine and raised the dead. Tell me that the guy who once remarked that illegal immigrants can bring plague isn’t setting himself up to be the next county executive. [...] “It’s a much more secure energy supply — we didn’t want to buy oil anymore from the Middle East or Norway,” said Lennart Erfors, the engineer who is overseeing the transition in this colorful city of 18th-century row houses. “And it has created jobs in the energy sector.” via Using Waste, Swedish City Shrinks Its Fossil Fuel Use – NYTimes.com. Back in the day when the county was giving Tilly Foster Farm over to a private individual to run for 40 years as he saw fit, where did you first read about it? That’s right – here at News That Matters. And last spring when Vinnie Tamagna was set to give Paul Camarda $3.7 million taxpayer dollars, where did you first read about it? That’s right – here at News That Matters. [...] |
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Rep. Eliot Engel disputes NRC’s findings on Indian Point
Congressman Eliot Engel issued a statement yesterday in response the the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s report, released last week, where it determined that there are no environmental impacts to stop licensing renewals for operation of the Indian Poin… [...]