Sentences with phrase «more dredging»

Ned Sullivan is president of Scenic Hudson, one of several environmental groups and lawmakers calling for more dredging.

In the second battle that I decided to kill more dredge, five of them popped up, about as much as the initial battle.

Fort Edward Supervisor Mitch Suprenant said Cuomo's statement convinced him that GE should do more dredging to remove the PCBs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration had remained silent on the issue of whether more dredging was needed while the state tried to attract GE's headquarters to New York.

The USFWS joins the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and New York State in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require polluter General Electric (GE) to conduct more dredging.

But I think it's useful to push for more dredging.»

In some battles, you're given a decision to stick around and kill more dredge or leave the battlefield.

An EPA review this summer found, based on data so far, the cleanup will protect human health and the environment long term and no more dredging is needed, although it could take 55 years or more before fish are clean enough to eat once a week.

All of the river's Natural Resource Trustees are united in calling for more dredging — something that could have happened much sooner, and at much less cost, if the EPA had heeded the trustees» recommendation to prevent GE from dismantling its dredging operations.

Mr. Sullivan has hailed the Cuomo administration for agreeing with federal trustees overseeing the Hudson River PCB cleanup that more dredging is needed to restore the river's health.

(See this article on why «more dredging» is at best simplistic, and at worst counter-productive as a response to flooding.)