In fact,
state environmental regulators said during the community meeting at the Porter Street Library in Buffalo that some of the air toxins they measured near the Peace Bridge were similar to what one might find near Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.
«It's important for people to know that
[state environmental regulators] allow sewer discharges into our waterways every day, every week, every year,» said Jill Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper.
Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan is calling on the Thruway Authority to
let state environmental regulators take the lead role in overseeing a review of a proposed 170 - mile crude oil pipeline starting at Exit 23 near the Port of Albany.
Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster
asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.
The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale,
state environmental regulators said on Thursday.
State environmental regulators have denied a key permit for a $ 900 million power plant being built in southeastern New York.
As referred to above, the heavy rains added so much weight to the floating roof of an oil storage tank at ExxonMobil's Baytown facility that the roof partially sank, and caused the more volatile petroleum - based components — including known and suspected carcinogens and otherwise toxic substances — to evaporate and release harmful air emissions in sufficient quantities to require reports to be submitted to
state environmental regulators.