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The Still River has never seemed very still to longtime residents who know that the river has flooded it’s way throughout Danbury’s history. Dave Bonan, 1999 graduate of Western Connecticut State University, local activist, agitator, and film maker said, “There were various sources that referred to it as the Still River because it was dead before the first hat was even produced in the 1790s. The farming pollution was in there long before the hatters. The river was commonly known to be dead.”
In 1886, the river was called a sewage dump in historical documents, and it was in that year that they began to install sewers. But the water was so bad, farmers were suing the city. People couldn’t work the mills and the cows wouldn’t drink from it.
The city gave the farmers land further upriver so they could farm, but in the court case of 1895,1896, Morgan vs Danbury, the federal court in Bridgeport ruled in favor of Morgan and made the city take responsibility for the destruction of the river. According to Bonan, Morgan v Danbury was important because it was a landmark case that affected all municipal industrial rivers nationwide with a remedy [...]
TweetThis just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The agency is planning to push water into the lower Esopus via the Ashokan waste channel starting tomorrow, in response to predicted snowstorms in the Catskills region. Ac… [...]
A recent study in the journal Science has shown that a little bottom-feeding Hudson River fish has evolved to resist one of humankind’s most potent pollutants: toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, p… [...]
Congresswoman Hayworth says of the agency that oversees clean air, clean water, chemical and biological pollution that it, “[is an] unaccountable bureaucracy imposing burdensome regulations [which] hurts the economy and drives jobs overseas.” And for a moment there I thought she was referring to Reagan era economic policies which gutted the American heartland by paying US companies to move their manufacturing operations overseas. [...]
A recent action by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ensures that New York City’s efforts to push dirty water out of the Ashokan Reservoir throughout the fall and winte… [...]
A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish is a movie that focuses on the wonders of the natural world and how we need to plan for the future as it examines the implication of increasing pollution. [...]
The Bronx River is once again clean and beautiful (and will hopefully continue to be so), and nothing exemplifies that quite so eloquently as the existence of José and Justin. [...]
An Unnatural Disaster
“Where I was wrong,” said President Obama at his press conference on Thursday, “was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios.”
With all due respect to the president, who is a very smart man, how is it possible for anyone with any reasonable awareness of the nonstop carnage that has accompanied the entire history of giant corporations to believe that the oil companies, which are among the most rapacious players on the planet, somehow “had their act together” with regard to worst-case scenarios.
These are not Little Lord Fauntleroys who can be trusted to abide by some fanciful honor system. These are greedy merchant armies drilling blindly at depths a mile and more beneath the seas while at the same time doing all they can to stifle the government oversight that is necessary to protect human lives and preserve the integrity of the environment.
President Obama knows that. He knows — or should know — that the biggest, most powerful companies do not have the best interests of the American people in mind when they are closing in on the kinds of profits that ancient [...]
Gulf Oil Spill Causes $95 Billion in Stock Damage: Chart of Day
May 25 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc’s leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has done as much as $95 billion in financial damage to shareholders of companies associated with the spill.
The CHART OF THE DAY shows the combined drop in market value for BP, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Cameron International Corp., Halliburton Co. and Transocean Ltd. since the leak began at the Macondo well, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Percentage losses for these companies in U.S. trading appear in the top panel. Their total capitalization tumbled to $207.1 billion yesterday from $296.8 billion on April 20, as the bottom panel shows. Japan’s Mitsui & Co., which has a 10 percent stake in the well, lost another $5.3 billion in market value.
The declines may be partly attributable to a slumping U.S. stock market. The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 11 percent during the period as Europe faced a financial crisis, underscored by a European Union-led bailout of Greece.
Gulf Oil Spill Causes $95 Billion in Stock Damage: [...]
You wouldn’t flush your toilet into your swimming pool, would you?Me neither.But that’s essentially what happens every day across New York when boat owners dump sewage from their on-board toilets into our rivers, lakes and estuaries. This disgustin… [...]
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