A new report claims that the PCB pollution in the Hudson River from GE’s dumping of the chemical is worse than has been anticipated by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in its evaluation of the effectiveness of the dredging program it approved to get the PCB’s out. PCBs are polychlorinated biphenyls, chemicals that were banned […]
A planned walking-and-biking path stretching 7.5-miles along the Hudson River from Cold Spring to Beacon, the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail project has divided the Highlands community.
by Karl H Grossman, August 01, 2023 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/1/2184519/-Dangers-of-Tritium The two nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York were shut down in the late 1990s because they had been leaking tritium into the water table below, part of the island’s aquifer system on which more than 3 million people depend on as their sole…
KINGSTON, N.Y. The Bon Odori Dance Festival for Peace, set for Sunday, Aug. 6, from noon to 8 p.m. at Kingston Point Beach, asks everyone to imagine a nuclear-free future. Youko Yamamoto, the festival’s organizer and owner of Tanma Ramen Tavern in Midtown, said this includes not only bringing an end to destructive nuclear […]