Sponsored by: Western New York Stormwater Coalition Erie County Department of Environment & Planning New York State Department of Environmental Conservation New
York Water Environment Association Western Chapter
of Convenience Stores (2004) Western New York Food Broker of the Year (2001) American Public Works Association - 2011 Elected Officials Award General Pulaski Association Inc. - 2012 «Unsung Heroes» Award Orchard Park Post of Fame - 2012 Inductee New
York Water Environment Association's Frank E. Van Lare Award - 2014 Lions Club, New York State - Robert J.Uplinger Award Lions Club International - Melvin Jones Award Honorary Lifetime Member of the Eastern Lake Erie Charter Boat Association
Not exact matches
Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail
environments in New
York City, USA; a programme promoting increased
water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.
There are simply too many unknowns to risk inflicting long - term, potentially catastrophic damage to New
York's
environment and
water supply.»
New
York DEC Press Release: New
York State Department of
Environment Conservation Denies
Water Quality Certificate Required for Constitution Pipeline, April 22, 2016, Accessed June 29, 2016
«The Environmental Facilities Corp. is pleased to assist New
York City and 17 other local governments in their efforts to provide safe and reliable clean
water systems, improving the
environment and
water quality, protecting public health, and creating jobs throughout the state,» said EFC President and CEO Matthew J. Driscoll.
«This is a vital proposal for New
York's
environment, for
water resources in the state, and there's no reason to think why we can't reach a good understanding of how that money will be spent,» he said.
«The Sierra Club has been a leader among environmental organizations, from keeping New
York's drinking
water clean to leading the fight against hydrofracking, they have been a crucial partner in protecting New
York's
environment.
At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking
water around the state and the country, a coalition of New
York public health,
environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.
Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our
water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the
environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New
York State.
While the Ontario Ministry of the
Environment has been saying the event is a New
York State matter, Niagara Falls Provincial Parliament Member Wayne Gates said dirty
water does not stop for the border.
The study also should marry the two areas Cuomo identified as his most challenging — the
environment and terrorism — by evaluating whether the Lloyd aquifer, our deepest and most pure source of
water, should be considered a strategic asset that must be reserved as much as possible for emergency use, for example, in the event New
York City's
water supply is disrupted.
«She seems very sincere to do more about the air and
water in the Adirondacks,» said Janeway, citing a long record of bipartisan action from New
York's federal lawmakers to protect the
environment.
«New
York reserves the right to pursue those who violate
water quality standards to protect the public and the
environment,» said DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.
Representative Timothy Bishop, New
York State — 1 (D) and ranking member of the Subcommittee on
Water Resources and
Environment, writes:
Timothy Bishop: New
York State — 1 (D)-- ranking member, Subcommittee on
Water Resources and
Environment
Wells: Well, I think that, I mean, increasingly in places like New
York, say where we're seeing the degradation of the
environment and you know, the fragmentation and all the issues, you know, we are actually starting to see where you have to actually pay for clean
water.
Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video
environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New
York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic
environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of
water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.
Scientists in New
York are blaming global warming for upsetting the Nenana Ice Competition stating that a recent navel survey clearly indicated that the heat energy that would normally cause the river to release its life giving
waters to the downstream
environment had been redirected to deep ocean sequestation where it was being used by the oil industry to kill sharks.
Scenic Hudson submitted its own comments citing the dangers that this proposal would have on public safety, the
environment, drinking
water intakes, scenic views, historic sites, and New
York's $ 5.2 billion tourism economy.
Though «climate denial starts at the top,» the New
York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean
waters and this
environment that we live in.»