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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at 4/10/17 9:27 am
Renewing my fishing license. Seeing how many state employees and minutes it will take.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at 9/2/16 2:06 pm
Buying my hunting license. Seeing how many state employees this requires.
Algal blooms in New York are getting worse
Something is wrong with Cayuga Lake.
Harmful Algal Blooms, or HABs, have been widespread there. While New York state is supposed to be doing assessments and comprehensive watershed cleanup of the blooms, it hasn’t been, according to Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting, an independent environmental monitor.
According to Hang’s just released data, which he obtained from the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation, while Cayuga Lake has more reported HABs than any other waterbody in the state, these blooms threaten critical drinking water sources for more than 10 million New Yorkers.
“There are 186 HABs so far this year in New York state,” Hang told Capital Tonight.
New York air quality worst since 2002
New York is experiencing the worst effects from wildfires in over two decades, a state Department of Environmental Conservation official said at a virtual news conference Tuesday. Share 10 articles every 30 days with anyone — paywall-free! SHARE NOW
Margaret LaFarr, assistant director of the Division of Air Resources at the DEC, said air conditions have not been this bad since smoke from Canadian wildfires swept across the state in 2002.
“We are looking at an unprecedented fire season here — certainly unprecedented level of fire in the Canadian regions,” said DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos. “Today the sky is hazy. Visibility is terrible. And you can smell the smoke in the air.”
NY will outlaw sale of new gas-powered cars in 2035, in mandated shift to electric vehicles
WHITE PLAINS - New York’s push for an emissions-free transportation system took a step forward Thursday when Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state Department of Environmental Conservation would expedite the regulations behind a mandate, signed by the governor last year, that all new cars sold starting in 2035 be emissions-free.
Work on new Hoosick Falls water source to take place
Last week, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released its final plan for a permanent replacement water source for the community of Hoosick Falls.
In 2015, PFOA was discovered in the community’s drinking water supply. Manufacturers Saint Gobain and Honeywell were found to be responsible.
The DEC’s plan is complex, but the nut of it includes developing two new groundwater supply wells, and converting existing test wells south of Hoosick Falls into production wells.
The plan is currently being reviewed by the community, but one Hoosick Falls resident, Jennifer Plouffe, told us she was skeptical. Plouffe and others argue that the entire region is polluted with PFAS chemicals. Additionally, she wondered aloud why the DEC didn’t decide to make the Tomhannock Reservoir, the drinking water source for the city of Troy, the new drinking water source for Hoosick Falls.
DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos told Capital Tonight that he, too, originally thought the Tomhannock was the community’s best bet.
“I will share that early on, I was also skeptical of the valley’s ability to provide clean water from the aquifer, but we let science be our guide,” Seggos said. “We really took years to drill into the aquifer in the entire valley to find clean water, and not just clean water, but enough water to meet the village’s need.”
When asked if the decision not to utilize the Tomhannock Reservoir, which is further away from Hoosick Falls, was made because of financial considerations, Seggos replied “absolutely not."