Neighbors United For the Fingerlakes

06/16/2023

The Department of Agriculture gives tens of millions of dollars every year to farmers and ranchers to support conservation efforts on their farms, but much of the funding ends up at big, industrial-scale operations that critics say worsen agricultural pollution and emit climate-warming greenhouse ga...

06/07/2023

ALBANY, June 2, 2023 —The Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter is calling for the state to reverse its policy of promoting the use of sewage sludge as a fertilizer spread on farm fields and as a component …

06/07/2023

I missed the talk, but the related page has some interesting articles. I am hoping the talk will be available to stream. I will update if it is.

Investigative reporter Peter Mantius will be presenting a talk entitled “Taking on Polluters and the NYS DEC to Protect Our Communities, Land, Air and Water: What we can learn from three important environmental struggles in New York’s Finger Lakes” on June 6 at 6:30 pm. He will be speaking for...

01/13/2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes A state regulator said the fuel might still show promise in ‘hardest-to-decarbonize’ industrial applications. A recent industry report on the viability of developing biogas as an emissions-reducing energy source in Michigan highlights the controversial fuel’s limits. Ho...

12/05/2018

BOISE — An animal welfare group on Tuesday applauded a court ruling ordering the state of Idaho to pay $260,000 to attorneys for animal rights groups after federal courts said

10/22/2018

Genetic engineering isn’t everyone’s childhood dream. Even I didn’t care for it when I started studying biology at the University of Amsterdam, but my professor explained it was an acquired taste and the best option for a good job. So, I suppressed my doubts and learned to extract DNA from pla...

08/09/2018

Cancer-stricken Dewayne Johnson vowed to fight to his death in a David versus Goliath court battle against agrochemical giant Monsanto, whose w**d killer he blames for robbing him of his future.

04/20/2017

Most opinion tribunals have had a considerable impact, and it is now accepted that they contribute to the progressive development of international law. – International Monsanto Tribunal Advisory Opinion, The Hague, April 18, 2017

04/20/2017

An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman later said Scott Pruitt won't "prejudge" any potential rule-making decisions as "we are trying to restore regulatory sanity to EPA's work."

04/12/2017

The DC Circuit Court ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday to close a loophole that has allowed hazardous substances released into the environment by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to go unreported.

"We applaud the DC Circuit Court's clear decision to enforce this vital environmental safeguard to protect public safety," said Earthjustice attorney Jonathan Smith, who helped argue the case before the court.

"In the words of the court, the risk of air emissions from CAFOs 'isn't just theoretical; people have become seriously ill and even died' from these emissions. But the public cannot protect itself from these hazardous substances if CAFOs aren't required to report their releases to the public. The loophole also prevented reporting of these toxics to local and state responders and the court held that plainly violated the law."

"We applaud the DC Circuit Court's clear decision to enforce this vital environmental safeguard to protect public safety. In the words of the court, the risk of air emissions from CAFOs 'isn't just theoretical; people have become seriously ill and even died' from these emissions." — Earthjustice

03/28/2017

02/20/2017

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