Another report on the massive liquid nitrogen barge Broadwater Energy plans for Long Island Sound is sure to mean another volley of words from the energy company and environmentalists.

The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued final version of its review today, finding that Broadwater could operate the barge — storing super-cooled liquid nitrogen [...]

The following report comes from our colleague Jonathan Bandler:

So what was up with all those commercial boats in the middle of the Hudson?

Over the past week or so, dozens of fuel barges were lined up between Hastings-on-Hudson and Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx with seemingly no place to go.

The Journal News got calls about it [...]

Looking for a perfect gift for Christmas of Hanukkah? How about a front-loading washing machine? A membership to a food co-op? A wheatgrass basket?

Citizens Campaign for the Environment has released its fifth annual guide to gifts that are easy on the ecology. They stress local products, organic foods and other such items.

It includes many items [...]

Another $8 million for the cleanup of Davids Island off New Rochelle has passed the House of Representatives in the 2007-08 Defense bill.

U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Harrison put the money in the bill, along with almost $7.5 million for other area projects. If it passes the Senate and Pres. Bush (either by his agreement or [...]

I talk to Terry Backer a lot when I write about Long Island Sound.

Backer is the Soundkeeper, looking out of the estuary the way the Riverkeeper looks out for the Hudson River. He’s also a member of the Connecticut General Assembly. (That’s what they call the legislature over there.)

Backer is an entertaining guy who’s lived [...]

I’m just the tiniest bit sore from a bit of work I did this afternoon, my first manual labor in longer than I like to admit. I joined an employee of the Westchester County parks department and four other volunteers to hack and yank at weeds and invasive vines at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye.

For an [...]

Save the Sound had reason to celebrate this week as Connecticut legislators approved $90 million for the state’s Clean Water Fund, which pays for projects like improving sewage treatment plants and sewer lines.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell is “pleased with the bill,” but still has to look it over before deciding whether to sign it, one [...]

Imagine hopping on your bike in White Plains, riding onto the Bronx River trail and heading straight to the tip of the Florida keys.

On the way, you’d hug the rim of Manhattan (on either side), pass natural areas and ride by the Washington Monument as you pedal along the National Mall in Washington.

Or you could [...]

Terry Backer, head of the Soundkeeper environmental group, says things are looked a little better in Stamford Harbor this past summer.

The Norwalk, Conn.-based group tested the oxygen level throughout the summer and found that it wavered on either side of the Connecticut state minimum water quality standard for oxygen. (That’s 6 parts per million of [...]

If you’re riding a bicycle from Maine to Florida, what’s the best route through Westchester?

The cyclists and planning people trying to piece together the East Coast Greenway will tackle that question Thursday, Oct. 18, at Lehman College in the Bronx.

An organizer, Mike Oliva, tells me that all interested people — that means members of the [...]