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06.14.2019 Environment

Connecticut AG argues against New York’s claims in dredging lawsuit

A legal battle is brewing between New York and Connecticut over the dumping of dredge spoil material in eastern Long Island Sound.

12.13.2016 Environment

Support grows for lawsuit challenging EPA’s dredge dumping plan

Less than a week after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, local officials and environmentalists have extended their support to the state, which is...

08.06.2016 Environment

Governor may take legal action against EPA over proposed dumping

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, backed by about 30 elected officials, announced on Thursday the state may take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency to stop a plan to allow dumping in...

06.17.2016 Environment

Restored dam, fish ladder on Peconic River opened

For centuries, alewife — a silver-scaled herring-like fish — return to Riverhead’s Peconic River estuary to spawn, making it as far as Grangebel Park to lay their eggs. But a series of...

06.13.2016 Letters

Featured Letter: No dumping in Long Island Sound

While you weren’t looking, the Environmental Protection Agency held two unadvertised “hearings” on dumping Connecticut dredged spoils into eastern Long Island Sound. Both were held May 25 in Riverhead...

04.28.2016 Environment

Critics lining up to oppose EPA’s Long Island Sound dumping plan

That the Environmental Protection Agency appears ready to allow dumping of materials dug up from dredging in Long Island Sound didn’t come as a surprise to environmentalist Adrienne Esposito.

12.07.2015 Environment

Creating sculptures with beach debris across the North Fork

Visitors to the North Fork next year may find new sculptures of wildlife made of untraditional materials — say, a jellyfish with fishing line as tentacles or a sea...

09.09.2015 Environment

Hearing on dumping in the Long Island Sound scheduled for Riverhead

Should the federal government allow dumping of materials into the Long Island Sound? Here’s your chance to share your thoughts.

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