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Enviroman

2008

No. 115September 29 Wind, Solar Tax Credits Extended in $700 Billion Bail-Out. Vice Presidential Candidates Wrangle Over Energy, Climate Change. Environmental Defense Fund Partners With Wal-Mart to Cut Global Shopping Bag Waste.
No. 114September 22 Reusable Bags Aren't Worth It They Don't Hold Up. Governor Paterson Opens Climate Change Gas Market. Republicans Boycott Senate Review of Bush Environmental Record.
No. 113September 15 Conservancy Buys Famed Adirondack Lake. Bush Administration Says Energy Bill As Waste of Time. $500G to Rensselaer for Flood Recovery.
No. 112September 8 To Slow Global Warming, Install White Roofs. Mall Glut to Clog Market for Years. Buffalo to Go to Single Stream Recycling.
No. 111September 1 Urge Congress to Permanently Protect the Arctic Refuge. ENN: Asian Pollution Could Spur U.S., European Warming. DEC Speaks on Revere Smelting Battery Recycling Plant.
No. 110August 25 A Mercury Story. Neighbor: Landfill Activity a 'nightmare. Man Dies from Toxic Fumes.
No. 109August 18 Earthquake Zone Intersection Threatens Indian Point Nuclear Plant. Time Running Short for 400-year Party. DEC to Pick Lead Body for Garbage-to-Gas Review.
No. 108August 11 Carbon Sequestration Might Poison The Planet. For Much of Area, Rain Won't Go Away. Product Safety Law Signed Today Bans Toxic Toys.
No. 107August 4 New, Dangerous, Twist to Old PCB Story. Making Cement from Carbon Dioxide? China's Hazy But Relatively Safe.
No. 106July 28 This Is Great. The Tragedy of the Love Canal. Love Canal Revitalization Agency to Close.
No. 105July 21 Make Freddie and Fannie Go Green. Five Hikes in Search of Hudson Valley Views. Oil Spill On Nearly 100 Miles of Mississippi River.
No. 104July 14 US Agrees 'compromise' Climate Deal. Monuments to U.S. Oil Dependence. Judy Enck: Natural Gas Drilling Regulation May Be Needed.
No. 103July 7 NaturalGas.org. Fulton County to Start Generating Electric from Methane at County Dump. Less is More for Recycle Program.
No. 102June 30 Paterson Sets Up Environmental Justice Office. Climate Change Registry Starts in New York. The Incredible Fib.
No. 101June 23 Oil Price Q&A: Who Are the Winners and Losers? Stop Blaming Speculators for Everything. Oil Sets New Record: $140 Per Barrel.
No. 100June 16 Krugman: Driller Insinct. Tax Cut Carrot for Solar Energy. NY Legislature Passes Cancer Mapping Bill.
No. 99June 9 Babylon Plans to Set Aside Funds for Green Program. Local Congressmen Sign Onto Law Forcing Vacant Leases to Be Used to Forfieted. New York Governor Encourages Unique Clean Coal Plant.
No. 98June 2 Oil Hits $139.01 A Barrel; Closes at $138.54. Paterson Praises Iberdrola Wind-power Plan. One Indian Point Reactor Shut Down for Repairs; Other Remains Active.
No. 97May 26 Climate Change Bills Proliferate in Congress. World Leaders Commit to Conserve Diversity of Life On Earth. Voyager Associates Buys Up 4,200 Acres of Adirondack Park.
No. 96May 19 How Clean is Coal? 'Recycling' Energy Seen Saving Companies Money. Plastic Finds a Second Life and Skirts the Dump.
No. 95May 12 Rachel's: Carbon Sequestration is Dangerous. 30 Years of Global Warming Has Altered the Planet. Lights out? NYers fall behind on energy bills.
No. 94May 5 Duanesburg drafts wind turbine rules. Croton-on-Hudson Diesel Spill Leads to Arrest. Portrait of an oil-addicted former superpower.
No. 93April 28 Divisions Persist Among Greenhouse Giants. E.P.A. Proposes New Limits on Lead in the Air. Malta to AMD: Do What You Please.
No. 92April 21 Stay on the alert. Europe's New Coal Plants. Hammond on Cleaner Air in Rensselear Co..
No. 91April 14 Invisible, Clean, and Massive? Deadline looms for Modernizing Huntley Station Power Plant. PSC: Iberdrola Must Sell Maple Ridge Stake.
No. 90April 7 Ethanol is an Environmental White Elephant? Metroland Online - This Week's Dining Review. Metroland Online - Newsfront.
No. 89March 31 Michigan Schools Embrace Wind Power, Biodiesel. Stillwater seeks clout to ensure safe drinking water during PCB dredging. Unsold books tossed out, recycled.
No. 88March 24 How Green Is Your Collar?. California cuts no-emissions vehicle requirement. Climate-change conference set in Tupper Lake.
No. 87March 17 McHugh presses for acid-rain funding. Men face charges for too many fish. Big haul lands anglers on hook again.
No. 86March 10 Going Nowhere Fast. Senators launch new effort to open ANWR to drilling. Bill would bar Suffolk from buying bottled water .
No. 85March 2 OPEC Says No to Lower Prices. The LaFarge Question. Using Rastra To Build an Energy Efficent Home.
No. 84February 24 LaFarge: Dirtiest Mercury Emitter in the State. The Not So Pristine National Parks. Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth.
No. 83February 17 Global Cooling and Warming.
No. 82February 10 London Increases Congestion Charge For Big Vehicles. The Anti-Biofuels Study.
No. 81February 3 Energy Bill May Benefit GE and Local Businesses. High Country News on Wildlife Managers and Climate Change. Renselear County Proposes A Municpal Plastic Bag Recycling Program.
No. 80January 27 Ride to Proctors for Free. $4 Dollar A Gallon Gas: Soon. Spitzer Says Do Nothing About Polluted Rivers.
No. 79January 20 EPA Supported California Waiver: Walmart Continues to Gren It's Stores Up. Some Interesting Things Done on the Environment Front.
No. 78January 13 How High Oil Prices Have Changed the World.
No. 77January 6 Spitzer Calls For Smart Energy Metering. Studying the Feasibility of Pougkeepsie-Highland Pedistrian Bridge. A Turning Point in Transit?

2007

No. 76December 30 Are High Oil Prices Good for Environment? Saving Your Trash for Year. Madison County's 100 Year Landfill Expansion.
No. 75December 23 Curbing Sprawl. Ken Parkinson's LTE on Sunday's Times Union. Saving Rural America By Greening It.
No. 74December 16 Cleaner and Greener Here and Not So in China. Burning $50 Million Dollars for the Hell of It. How to Restore 598 Madison.
No. 73December 9 US Senate Passes Energy Bill. Exxon Proposes Liquefied Natural Gas Plant 20 Miles from New Jersey Shore. Amtrak and State Move Forward After Dispute.
No. 72December 2 Climate Change Petition. See What Pete Seeger Has to Save About Climate Change. Energy Bill Dies in US Senate.
No. 71November 25 Titus Mountain Open. Chemical Tanker Crash on Route 9N. Thruway Authority Gets In Trouble for Storing Hazardous Waste.
No. 70November 18 Coal's Solid Waste Problem. A Petition to Ban Phthalates. What Global Warming?
No. 69November 11 High Oil Prices? Blame Instability? Laura Bush Likes Mandatory Plastic Bag Recycling. The New 2009 Chevy Silverado Hybrid.
No. 68November 4 Do Your Cows Glow At Night? This Little Gem from TU Business Blog. Times Union Catches On to the 20th Century.
No. 67October 29 House Passes Updated Public Lands Mining Law. Well Moo. Kunstler on What's Keeping Gas Prices Low.
No. 66October 22 Quick End of Friday Note. Oil's Running Out. America's Greenest States.
No. 65October 15 Beaming Power From Space? Is It Better To Drive or Fly? Industry: Sure Nuclear Power -- If You Give Me The Bucks.
No. 64October 8 Al Gore Wins Noble Peace Prize. American Electric Power To Clean Up It's Plants. Going More Remote for Oil.
No. 63October 1 Cap and Recycle. New California Buildings Must Be Energy Nuetral By 2020. NYC, water Resources, and Upstate Residences.
No. 62September 24 More Railing Against Wind Power. Seneca Meadow Traffic Upsets Southern Tier Residents. World Bank Ignoring Renewables?
No. 61September 17 Saratoga's Mineral Baths To Go Pure. Erie Canal May Run Dry. Congress Critical of Coal Sequestration and Coal to Liquid.
No. 60September 10 Peter Bauer to Leave Resident's Committee to Harass the Adirondacks. Speaking of the Floating Dock Camp Scandal. Global Warming Helping Oil Exploration.
No. 59August 27 Albany Has NY's Best Tasting Water (Again). Dormitory Authority to Mandate LEEDs Construction. Changing Mountaintop Mining Regulations.
No. 58August 20 Climate Change vs. Environmentalism.
No. 57August 6 Hillary on the Environment. The Great Mine Disaster. VPIRG's Not So Great Report on Cholorine Use At Paper Plants.
No. 56July 30 Decline of Bees. Wi-Fi Public Parks. Governor Signs Brodsky's Creosote Bill Into Law.
No. 55July 23 Prisus as a Political Statement. Endangered Species Act an Endangered Species? Our Sometimes Very Dangerous World.
No. 54July 16 Spitzer Signs EPF Increases. Getting AMD Answers Before Money? Rensselearville Comprehensive Plan.
No. 53July 9 It No Longer Stinks So Bad. Spitzer to Veto EPF Increase? The Legislature's Tax Increase.
No. 52July 2 Causing Trouble Over at Grist With Fuel Economy Standards. Live Earth's Seven Point Pledge. Beyond Intercity Despair.
No. 51June 25 Illegal or Not? Alliance for Clean Energy Complains About No Article X Law. You Too Can Swim in the East River.
No. 50June 18 Economist on Recycling. That 43 Megawatt Question.
No. 49May 21 TU on Global Warming. Pete Dubacher's Back on the Front Page.
No. 48May 7 China Looking More Towards Renewable. Obama Proposes Tougher Fuel Economy Standards.
No. 47April 30 Draft of a TU Letter to the Editor. Dirty Apples. How Much Mercury is In That Bulb?
No. 46April 23 House Bans International Trash Importing. The Downside of Cap and Trade. Biofuels and Energy.
No. 45April 16 Spitzer's New Energy Speech. Refill Not Landfill. Work on PCB Facility to Start Soon.
No. 44April 9 Today Was The Big Global Warming Day. Dioxin as Brought To You By the Chlorine Council. What DEC Oversight?
No. 43March 26 Ansel Adams Photos To Come to Cooperstown. New York City to Put Recycling Bins in Parks. Powering Your Laptop on Sugar.
No. 42March 19 Governor Has Northway Cellphone Plan. Inhofe's Skeptic Guide to Climate Change. Dangerous Technology: Carbon Sequestration.
No. 41March 12 How Much Oil Does It Take To Make Plastic? Ausable Gets Wet. Few Stories on Global Warming.
No. 40March 4 Bonvia Says No To Wind Farms. Spitzer Says No Negogations With NYRI Until Impact Study. I-86 To Consider Adding 2 More Lanes.
No. 39February 25 Hillary's Energy Speech. How Many Compact Fluorescents Do You Have? What A Purty Casino.
No. 38February 18 The Results of Last Night's Public Hearing. Pete Grannis' Nomination To Be Opposed By Hunting Groups. NYT Says Spitzer Should Do Something on Global Warming.
No. 37February 11 Twenty Years and Still Dumping Hazardous Waste. Governor Spitzer Wants an Office on Climate Change. Casella Does Another Snow Job on Elmira/Ithaca.
No. 36February 4 If It Had Only Been a Sex Offender.
No. 35January 28 Grannis Becomes Head of DEC. GE Hires Contractors for Hudson River Dredging.
No. 34January 14 US Senator Ted Stevens Introduces 40 MPG Car Fuel Economy Standard. Oh, Cement Plants. Don't Worry: The Hudson River Has Always Has Had Radioactive Fish.
No. 33January 7 Rockland County to Have Perpetual Hazardous Waste Collection. Connecticut To Emphasize Recycling. Spitzer May Appoint Energy Lobbyist To Head PSC.

2006

No. 32December 17 States Sue EPA Over Soot Levels.
No. 31December 10 Styrofoam Thoughts. James Howard Kunstler on the Changing America.
No. 30December 3 Rob a Polluter, Pay the Cowboy. Some Thoughts on Environmental Pollution. DEC Announces Draft Greenhouse Gas Regulations.
No. 29November 26 Global Warming and My Pickup Truck.
No. 28November 12 Pew. That Georgia-Pacific Paper Plant. You Smell A Feedlot, We Smell Money. Ti's IP Decides Against Tire Burn Plan.
No. 27November 5 Plastic Trash in the Pacific Ocean. DEC Updates Master Snowmobile Plan for Adirondacks. Dredging the Hudson River.
No. 26October 23 Today's TU Article on Secret Dump Contract.
No. 25October 16 Allied Waste Dumps Trash at Rapp Road for $37.39/ton. Sunday Morning. Just Creatures of Nature.
No. 24October 9 Towards a New Environmental Philosophy.
No. 23October 2 Debating on the Burn Barrel Pollution. Troy Buys 35 Acres of River Front Property to Clean Up. EANY Names Tom DiNappoli Legislator of the Year.
No. 22September 18 Toxic Algea Blooms. Albany to Dump Nixon-Peabody? Albany Dumps Plan for East Barriens Dump Expansion.
No. 21September 11 Apple Trees. Vermont Governor and AG Continue To Fight Ti Test Burn.
No. 20August 28 Monocropped and Flat. Northern Sanitation's Dioxin Commericals. Should the Champlain Bridge Be Preserved?
No. 19August 21 When Will Energy Be Cheap? Six Months in a Green Building. Paper Trash and Campaigns.
No. 18August 14 Alive at Five, Litter at Six. Green New York. Poverty in Mid-Hudson River Communities.
No. 17August 7 Homeless Living Under Bridge. Even More Pricey Gasoline.
No. 16July 31 Paper Garbage on It's Way to the Dump. Can't Breathe Most of This Week. Purty? Yes. Terribly Constructed? Yes.
No. 15July 24 Sandy Gordon's Biodiesel Pickup Truck. Save the Pine Bush Landfill/Solid Waste Committee. Gas Prices Hit Record Highs.
No. 14July 17 How Does Region Effect Gas Prices? More DEC Gated Communities. Mayor's Time to Rant and Rave About the City Dump.
No. 13July 10 $4.9 Billion Profit for GE This Quarter. VPR on Air Quality. NYCO On Why He Loves Global Warming.
No. 12July 3 Google Maps for Rural America. No Gay Marriage Right in New York State. The Latest Yuppie Product: Oxygen Water.
No. 11June 26 Mud versus Muck. The Green Bubble. 9.5 Feet Over Sea Level.
No. 10June 5 Rain, Rain, Go Away.
No. 9May 15 I See the Sun.
No. 8May 8 Rain. Eagles Return.
No. 7April 24 Thoughts on Hybrid Cars. Reflections on the Effuluent Society.
No. 6April 17

2005

No. 5June 6 First Signs of Spring. Why Are There So Many Republican Dairy Farmers?
No. 4May 10 The Farmer I Met Yesterday.
No. 3February 22 The farm as an institution is transforming

2003

No. 2November 30 More Reflections on Rapp Road.
No. 1October 20 Clarification on my thoughts on Environmental Policy.