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State News
COMMENTARY: Fracking has been proven safe for years
Star-Gazette (11/22)
In asking the NYDEC to permit Marcellus development, we are not asking for something new. We are asking for something that's been happening for many years to continue.
House says states can’t regulate ballast
Watertown Daily Times (11/8)
New York’s strict new standards for keeping invasive species out of ships’ ballast on the St. Lawrence Seaway took a hit in Congress, and probably won’t get a second chance on Capitol Hill, a congressional source said Monday.
Congresswoman Slaughter bashes bill that would cut Great Lakes funding
WBFO (7/26)
Western New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter is bashing legislation that would ban Great Lakes funding. Slaughter is a ranking member of the House Rules Committee and co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force.
EDITORIAL: Ban boat discharges from lake
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/4)
NY Senator Chuck Schumer wants the Environmental Protection Agency to speed up a process that would ban all waste discharges from boats in Lake Ontario.
Ginna fixing pump, NRC reports
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (9/2)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have scaled back oversight of a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump at the Ginna nuclear power plant on the Lake Ontario shore about 15 miles east of Rochester.
Gillibrand joins push for transparency at Seaway
Watertown Daily Times (8/4)
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has joined Save the River, a Clayton nonprofit, in the group's fight to have the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. and the Canadian Seaway Management Corp. reveal their formula for setting the Seaway's opening date.
State Beach Resources
New York Beach Monitoring and Closure/Advisory Practices
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York beach maps and information on beach monitoring and closings.
State Parks/Camping/Day Use
New York State Parks
Surfrider Foundation – State of the Beach state report
Surfrider Foundation
The Surfrider Foundation State of the Beach report is our annual update on the health of our nation's beaches. It is intended to empower concerned citizens and coastal managers by giving them the information needed to take action.
State Beaches
Great Lakes Information Network
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