Jumping Worms Will Eat Your Lawn!
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June 14, 2018
The Emerald Ash Borer provides a recent and chilling example. The adults are small bullet-shaped, bright green beetles. Larvae are little white caterpillars that eat their way through the living part of the tree under the bark. In their homeland in northern Asia they are controlled, in a "balance" by predators, particularly parasitic wasps — tiny black critters the size of rice grains — who lay their eggs on the EAB larvae and eggs.
‘We’re Scrambling:’ New York Dairy Farmers Struggling To Stay In Business
By Tony Aiello
June 13, 2013
CALLICOON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — June is “National Dairy Month,” but this year, many New York family farmers say they have little to celebrate.
Before the month is over, dozens of them may be out of business, including six in Sullivan County.
CBS2’s Tony Aiello spent the day with some of them in the Catskills.
On a lush hillside overlooking the Callicoon Creek Valley is The Diehl Family Dairy Farm, established in 1842.
Adam Diehl is generation number five to run the milking operation with his wife, Alice. Their daughter, Michaela, hopes to be generation six.
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Preservation group buys land to expand Bashakill area
By Daniel Axelrod
May 21, 2018
WURTSBORO – Two recent land purchases by the Open Space Institute will link the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area in Wurtsboro to Wurtsboro Ridge, Roosa Gap and Shawangunk Ridge state forests.
The acquisitions also are important steps toward unifying the 71-mile Shawangunk Ridge Trail, from Rosendale in Ulster County to High Point State Park in New Jersey, so hikers never have to walk on private property or roads.
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More than 100 groups send plastic bag ban letter to Gov. Cuomo
May 14, 2018
Dear Governor Cuomo:
We, the undersigned, strongly support New York State enacting a comprehensive policy to curb the use of single-use bags this legislative session.
As you are aware, our organizations have worked with municipalities throughout New York to successfully enact policies that reduce disposable bag use and encourage consumers to switch to reusable alternatives. We applaud your commitment to address plastic bag pollution on a state-wide level and we want to work with your office to enact an effective, comprehensive program this year.
U.S. Supreme Court won’t save Constitution Pipeline
By Fritz Mayer
May 2, 2018
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on May 1 declined to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that would prevent the pipeline from going forward. The proposed 125-mile line would run from Pennsylvania to New York, and eventually deliver gas to New York City, Westchester and other communities.
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Capitol Pressroom
By Tim Williams
May 2, 2018
The Constitution Pipeline was dealt another legal hit this week by the U.S. Supreme Court. We discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to deny a hearing on the pipeline and the effect this will have on New York with Earthjustice staff attorney Moneen Nasmith and Wes Gillingham, co-founder and Program Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper.
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New York prevails on natural gas pipeline denial
By Brian Nearing
May 1, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal from developers of the proposed Constitution pipeline, who last summer lost a lower federal court challenge to a state ruling that blocked the pipeline.
The highest court let stand a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit rejecting Constitution's claims that the state Department of Environmental Conservation unfairly denied critical water quality permits in April 2016.
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Constitution Pipeline's New York route thwarted again, this time by U.S. Supreme Court
By Jeff Platsky
May 1, 2018
Another court appeal and another loss for Constitution Pipeline sponsors.
The U. S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an attempt to overturn a lower federal district court decision that allowed New York to shoot down the project because of environmental concerns.
Constitution Pipeline was scheduled to transport gas from the newly fracked natural gas deposits in northeastern Pennsylvania to a hub southwest of Albany.
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