What do sheep, goats and cows have to do with the Indian Point nuclear power plants?

Members of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, also known as IPSEC, want to see if the milk from the animals shows signs of tritium or strontium 90.
If it does, it could indicate that the materials are in more places [...]

After a Stony Point woman asked him the status of the Hudson River when it came to sewage treatment plants, the director of the DEC’s local regional office appeared to speak bluntly.

“We’re not where we should be,” said William Janeway, who leads the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 3 office. Region 3 includes [...]

So a good 50 or so people gathered at the Suffern Library just a few hours ago to participate in a program on the status of Rockland’s water supply.

The speakers included William “Willie” Janeway, who directs the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 3 office; United Water New York spokesman Steve Goudsmith; and Alison Keimowitz, [...]

The state of Rockland’s water will be the focus of a free program at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Suffern Library, 210 Lafayette Ave.

The participants will include William Janeway, New York state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 director; Alison Keimowitz, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; and Steve Goudsmith, a spokesman for United Water New [...]

Gov. Paterson has kicked off a brand new tourism campaign using a favorite old slogan: I Love New York.
The original effort was launched 31 years ago and focused on New York City attractions.
The new version, which also taps all of the current technology, including the web, also emphasizes the assets of the rest of the [...]

For $5.98, and tax, of course, I am now (mostly) paper-and-plastic-bag free.

The guilt about using grocery-store-issued plastic bags had really been building.

It’s not like I hadn’t seen the reusable cloth bags at ShopRite in Airmont, where I buy my weekly groceries.

Or at the Pathmark in Nanuet, where I sometimes shop because it’s close to the [...]

The authors of several new books highlighting some of the best places of the Lower Hudson Valley will attend a signing Wednesday at the carousel at Bear Mountain State Park.

With the exception of one, each book is part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. You’ve probably seen previous selections at the bookstore: each features [...]

The annual Ramapo River Watershed conference will take place this year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 25 at the Ramapo College of New Jersey, just over the Rockland border in Mahwah, N.J.

The sponsors include the Ramapo River Committee, the Institute for Environmental Studies at Ramapo College,  and the Rockland County Conservation Association.

Geoff Welch, [...]

Spring cleaning season is almost here, and so are almost daily opportunities for proper disposal of your household hazardous waste in Rockland County.

Everything from old paint, pool chemicals and pesticides to gasoline, antifreeze and driveway sealer can be brought to the Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Facility, off Firemen’s Memorial Drive, in Pomona.

The facility also accepts [...]

Diannae Ehler, who became general manager of Stewart International Airport in November, will be the guest speaker when the Rockland Municipal Planning Federation holds its 20th annual dinner Monday.

Ehler will discuss some of the changes that have taken place at Stewart, as well as the airport’s future.

The Port Authority of New York-New Jersey took over [...]