Water
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 - 10:39 am
There's a flood watch in effect for some of the Catskills region today and tonight. (Surprise, surprise.) For the western Catskills, from NOAA:
OTSEGO-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE-430 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 23, 2010 - 9:59 am
In the New York Times yesterday (via Greenwire): Congressman Maurice Hinchey pressed the Obama administration, via its representative on the Delaware River Basin Commission, to halt Marcellus gas drilling in New York and Pennsylvania until his proposed $1... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Yesterday, the New York Times weighed in on fracking via its editorial pages. (This is not the first time it's done this.) Unsurprisingly, the paper called for a complete ban on any and all fracking in the NYC watershed region:
We have long believed that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 6:13 pm
It's despised by flyfishers everywhere. It's a blight on the ecosystem of the trout stream. And it's coated the bottom of the Esopus with a foul goop with all the charm of a wad of wet toilet paper. How could rock snot ever be beautiful?
Most people tend... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 4:09 pm
Is New York City's water kosher? That depends on your perspective -- after all, it is swimming with tiny, harmless shrimplike organisms called copepods.
Earlier this summer, an enterprising blogger added a common laboratory stain to New York City tap... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 15, 2010 - 11:47 am
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Want to tell the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency your thoughts on gas drilling in New York? Today's your last chance, and there are hundreds of people lined up to speak before you.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 2:29 pm
We spilled a lot of ink over the weekend about the many candidates running for governor in tomorrow's primary election, and we would be remiss if we overlooked those who are running to be the next attorney general of our fair state. Luckily, Reuters has... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 11:42 am
Up here amongst the hills and trees, it's easy to think that the Catskills' perennial tensions with New York City over water are something that only locals know or care about. Not so. Witness this audio interview with Tracy Stanton, the "water program... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 2:11 pm
The county board of supervisors may not have shown up, but there were plenty of reporters and video cameras at Wednesday's protest of gas drilling in Delhi, in Delaware County. (Read our coverage of the rally here.)
One of the attendees behind a lens was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 12:30 am
A crowd of several hundred protesters packed the lawn of Courthouse Square in Delhi yesterday to protest the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, which has been supportive of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling also known as fracking.
One by one... Read more
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