Oct 16
2013
Piece by piece …
Posted 11 years ago
Oct 16
2013
Oct 16
2013
A month-and-a-half ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared his intent to open Gallagher Beach near the South Buffalo – Lackawanna border for public swimming. Congressman Brian Higgins is pushing to open the beach as soon as next summer. Not so fast, concluded an analysis by Erie County’s former senior public health engineer. He concluded opening Gallagher Beach for swimming is “probably impractical” because of a raft of environmental concerns. The analysis, coupled with reporting by our environmental reporter Dan Telvock, painted a picture of a beach whose waters rest in a harbor basin contaminated with PCBs and whose neighbors include two Superfund sites that[...]
Oct 15
2013
Oct 14
2013
The state League of Conservation Voters give high grades to two local state senators, Mark Gristanti and George Maziarz. Marks handed out by a second group, Environmental Advocates, are not nearly as generous.
Oct 14
2013
New York had the most laboratory confirmed algae bloom warnings of any state since May, according to a new report. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean the Empire State has the biggest problem with the toxic nuisance. Blooms are in lakes, rivers and streams across the country. Without nationwide monitoring, there’s a “haphazard state-by-state approach,” the report concludes. In other words, some states test regularly and other states test very little, if at all. The blooms, often called blue-green algae, consist of bacteria that produce toxins. Runoff from farms that use fertilizers containing phosphorous are one of the chief sources of the blooms. The[...]
Oct 11
2013
“The administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post’s investigation of Watergate.” —Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post
Oct 11
2013
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2013