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07/17/11 WATERBURY - Public meetings on the status of waterfowl populations and waterfowl hunting seasons for the State of Vermont and Lake Champlain zone in New York will be held Tuesday, Aug. 9, in Whitehall, N.Y., and Wednesday, Aug. 10, in Burlington, Vt. The annual meetings are being held by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department ...
07/15/11 Vermont state officials say a plan to rename three park properties after a former state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner has been scotched amid opposition.
07/13/11 In one corner of a long, barely lit room, standing in a spot that had been swept clean of the peeled ash bark that littered the rest of the space, Mike Callin, head forester for the Department of Environmental Conservation in Lake Katrine, addressed his team.
07/10/11 Area anglers now enjoy the use of transported baitfish with the recent passage of an easement in Department of Environmental Conservation regulations on moving bait along corridors adjacent to waterways, many of which lie in Western New York.
07/10/11 FLOWER MOUND -- The Flower Mound Town Council is accepting applications for seats on various boards and commissions including the Animal Services Board, Board of Adjustment, Oil and Gas Board of Appeals, Environmental Conservation Commission, LISD Liaison, Parks, Arts, and Library Services Board, Planning & Zoning Commission, and the Transportation Commission.
07/09/11 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has gone public with their proposed regulations on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas.
07/09/11 The number of open spills handled by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has dropped 61 percent over the past eight years, the DEC reported this past week. In January 2003, when the DEC began taking more aggressive measures to follow through on spill cleanups, there were 32,948 open spills statewide. At the end of fiscal year 2010-11 the number had dropped to 12,752.
07/08/11 SARANAC LAKE - More than 40 Canada geese were rounded up, tagged and released on the shore of Lake Flower Friday as part of an ongoing goose-monitoring campaign by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
07/08/11 Now that the state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued recommendations that could lead to widespread use of a controversial method of natural gas drilling called hydraulic fracturing, we join with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, in issuing a cautionary note.
07/08/11 The state Department of Environmental Conservation has posted online its proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in the lucrative Marcellus Shale region of southern New York.
07/08/11 Woodbury-based Dvirka and Bartilucci Consulting Engineers and Glen Cove-based TRC Engineers were recently awarded a joint seven-year contract from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The contract, worth up to $50 million, is for the firms to provide standby engineering/technical services to the DEC in support of hazardous waste, hazardous substances and petroleum spill ...
07/07/11 The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the city Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced the signing of two parallel agreements to significantly improve water quality and habitat in Jamaica Bay. read more
07/07/11 Though it sounds as if it might be the beginnings of a bad joke, giant hogweed is no laughing matter. This dangerous weed is spreading through New York, and its attack has grown severe enough that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation has set up a hotline to enlist residents' help in locating and destroying the plant.
07/06/11 The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing an updated wetlands map that would designate about 20,000 additional acres in the region as wetlands, and economic development professionals say it would severely curtail development.
07/06/11 A monster plant with white flowers in the shape of an umbrella and sap that can cause severe burns and possible blindness is rearing its dangerous head this summer. In the Capital Region, state Department of Environmental Conservation crews, with the help of homeowners, are making sure giant hogweed plants in Albany and Rensselaer counties are cut back or sprayed, said Naja Kraus, the department ...
07/05/11 Independence Day celebrations were a little sweeter this year for the de pressed communities of New York's Southern Tier, after the state Department of Environmental Conservation recommended lifting the ban on the hydrofracturing, or "fracking." Fracking would allow firms to harvest the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas...
07/05/11 A federally listed noxious weed called the giant hogweed has been spotted in Nassau County. The sap from the plant can be very dangerous: it can cause severe skin and eye irritation, scarring, blistering, and even blindness, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
07/04/11 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens gave his seal of approval on extracting natural gas from 85 percent of the Marcellus Shale in upstate New York using high-impact horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, on Friday.
07/02/11 WATKINS GLEN, NY - Jack Ossont, spokesman for The Coalition to Protect New York, a growing grassroots organization opposed to hydraulic fracturing fracking for methane gas, released the following statement today regarding the decision by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation to move forward on permitting fracking in parts of New York."Yesterday's announcement makes...
07/01/11 ALBANY - In a surprise move Thursday, the state Department of Environmental Conservation issued a long-awaited summary of major, sweeping changes to its continuing review of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a day before a full 900-page report is due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The new recommendations include an outright ban of high-volume hydrofracking in the Syracuse and New York City watersheds ...
06/28/11 The installation of a new playground at Veterans Park in Rocky Point is one step closer to becoming a reality now that the state and county have reached a permitting agreement, Brookhaven Town officials announced this week. Second District Councilwoman Jane Bonner said the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which owns the park, [...] | 
