08.08.2014 Environment Lawsuit takes aim at parking lots proposed, approved by, DEC In a town awash with thousands of parking spaces, an application for another four might not seem like that big of a deal. But tucked away on the far...
08.06.2014 Government EPCAL study is in; board to set public hearing tomorrow Riverhead Town is now one step closer to being able to sell individual lots at the Enterprise Park at Calverton. The town has received a draft environmental impact study...
06.10.2014 Environment DEC’s strategy for safeguarding L.I. water: more research After 16 years of research and debate, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has released its strategy for safeguarding Long Island’s water supplies from pesticide contamination. But that final...
05.17.2014 Environment Gov. Cuomo aiming to help region control & treat wastewater Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hosting a number of meetings to better understand groundwater resource needs in Nassau and Suffolk counties, in hopes of developing a wastewater management plan for the...
04.25.2014 Health & Environment Sides meet in Albany to discuss the mute swan’s fate Stakeholders on both sides of a life-or-death debate met in Albany last Thursday to discuss the future of the mute swan, an invasive species on the cusp of widespread...
04.25.2014 Health & Environment Lines being drawn as DEC takes aim at majestic swan WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Aggression toward humans and native animal species, the depletion of submerged vegetation in aquatic ecosystems and degraded water quality due to droppings are among the negative...
03.07.2014 Environment Judge: DEC can’t issue any more permits for deer cull As the old saying goes: if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And so it went for opponents of a federal operation to cull deer across the...
02.28.2014 Environment East End cull starts; Riverhead properties OK’d for hunt After months of debate and a failed lawsuit filed by opponents of the plan, a deer cull kicked off this week across multiple private properties on eastern Long Island, as...