If you’re a shoreline property owner and are able to have an emergency breakwater of some sort put in, New York’s DEC says you can go ahead and do it and worry about the paperwork later. Normally it takes a sheaf of permits to do work in a wetland or coastal area. But the Department […]
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation says cleanup of the land around the former Geneva Foundry in that city will begin this summer. Homes and businesses around the abandoned foundry site are contaminated with lead and other toxic metals given off by the furnaces over the hundred years it ran in Geneva. The residential properties […]
A State Department of Environmental Conservation study has found traces of silver escaped from Eastman Kodak’s film making operations over the decades, causing a possible risk for wildlife and humans. But the agency says the risk to both seems to be low. Silver was and remains an integral part of making photographic film at what’s now […]