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Nov 15

2012

DEC idling on enforcement

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Diesel fumes permeate the air near the gate to the Peace Bridge Duty Free store as nearby trucks idle in traffic and parking lots. The idling trucks are a sore spot for residents of the West Side that borders the bridge and its plaza on the American side. Diesel fumes contribute to air pollution believed to be partly responsible for health problems – including asthma rates nearly four times higher than the national average – among residents on the city’s lower West Side, according to Dr. Jamson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa, a leading researcher of air quality in the neighborhood. The World Health[...]

Posted 12 years ago

Nov 15

2012

Transparency is the best policy

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Note: This post was written in November 2012 and has been amended to reflect a change in the presidency of Investigative Post. Dan Telvock, our environmental reporter, has a new report about the failure of the Department of Environmental Conservation to aggressively act on requests to enforce state law at the Peace Bridge that prohibits trucks from idling. It is the first in a series of stories that Dan intends to produce regarding the Peace Bridge. In many ways, covering the Peace Bridge makes perfect sense for Investigative Post, although it is not without complications, for reasons I’ll explain in[...]

Posted 12 years ago

Nov 15

2012

Big Brother comes home to roost

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The Petraeus scandal underscores the vast surveillance powers at the disposal of law enforcement to pry even into non-criminal matters. As one privacy expert put it: “The scandal isn’t what’s illegal; the scandal is what’s legal.” A report from ProPublica.

Posted 12 years ago

Nov 15

2012

Perfect day to start recycling

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Today is the perfect day to start recycling if you haven’t already. Why? Because it is America Recycles Day. This morning, the Buffalo Recycling Alliance gave an award to the Community Charter School on Edison Avenue, which I mentioned in this article about the city school system’s challenges with boosting recycling in all of the schools. About 25 students were in attendance for the award and then there was an assembly on recycling at the school for all elementary students. There was a lot of excitement in the room as the students realized they were being recognized for recycling. “Not everyone[...]

Posted 12 years ago

Nov 12

2012

Lennon wants Cuomo to imagine no fracking

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Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and their organization “Artists Against Fracking” are using a large billboard off a New York City highway to put pressure on Gov. Cuomo to “imagine there’s no fracking.” The Rolling Stone magazine  says the Major Deegan Expressway, where the billboard is situated in the skyline, is well traveled by the governor. Sean Lennon, the only son of John Lennon and Ono, was also critical of the natural gas extraction process in an op/ed in the New York Times. His family farm is under threat from hydrofracking interests, he says. The governor and the state Department of Environmental[...]

Posted 12 years ago
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