03.14.2016 Environment After complaints about DEC violating state law, no action taken In June 2015, Brookhaven Town officials and the leader of an environmental nonprofit suggested that the state entity in charge of protecting the environment had actually violated its own...
09.04.2015 Editorials Editorial: A waiver is not the answer for Kent Animal Shelter Not surprisingly, the ongoing debate between Kent Animal Shelter and the Pine Barrens Society over whether the shelter deserves a waiver from the Pine Barrens Protection Act to build...
09.02.2015 Environment Court: County has to repay $29M in water quality funds New York State’s highest court declined to hear an appeal by Suffolk County late last month that would have allowed further review of a case that will now require...
03.17.2014 Environment Green groups seeking signatures for November referendum Saying a lawsuit against the Suffolk County isn’t quite enough, environmentalists have taken to parking lots from Southold to Huntington to get a referendum on this fall’s ballot to...
03.10.2014 Government County sued over use of Drinking Water funds in budget After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $33 million in funds that were raised...
11.19.2013 Government Bellone signs budget; green groups decry use of drinking water funds Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has signed a 2014 budget previously amended by county legislators earlier this month, though the amended plan has environmental groups preparing to sue over...
08.02.2013 News The day the paving stopped in the L.I. Pine Barrens On the Fourth of July in 1993, the “War of the Woods” was coming to a head, and Long Island Pine Barrens Society co-founder John Turner was on the...
07.11.2013 Editorials Editorial: Farmland bill debate at least raises questions Long Island Pine Barrens Society executive director Richard Amper and 1st District county Legislator Al Krupski have been engaged in a public battle in recent weeks over Mr. Krupski’s...