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Serious pollution in the airspace above is being ignored

Today, everyone is conscious of pollution and its detrimental effects on our environment and health. The most common forms are water, air and plastic pollution, but there is another type . . . more

By Brian Curran | 9/14/23

Hewlett Harbor village aims to curb flooding with its Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery project. Above, Heather Lane in 2019.

Hewlett Harbor's $3 million storm recovery project 99% complete

Nearly eight years after Hurricane Sandy washed through the Five Towns, more than $3 million from the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery and a $450,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency were poured into repairing Hewlett Harbor’s stormwater infrastructure to stem flooding. more

By Lisa Margaria | 9/30/21

A diagram of the areas of concern (AOC) on Peninsula Boulevard, in Hewlett, where the federal Environmental Protection Agency will conduct fieldwork beginning on Monday.

EPA set to begin next phase of Hewlett Plume project

Fieldwork is scheduled to continue the week of April 5 on the $24.7 million portion of a $46.2 million cleanup project at a groundwater plume Superfund site at 1274 Peninsula Blvd. in Hewlett, according to Environmental Protection Agency officials. more

By Matthew Ferremi | 3/31/21

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Rock and Wrap It up! founder and Cedarhurst resident Syd Mandelbaum and Pastor Annetter Rodriguez at Woodcrest United Methodist Church in the Bronx.

EPA chief checks in on food waste with Rock and Wrap It Up!

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler took part in several events in the South Bronx that focused on food waste, a major project of Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! founded by Syd Mandelbaum. more

By Jeff Bessen | 10/3/19

Watral Brothers Inc. is in the process of demolishing the last of 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood.

175 Roger Ave. in Inwood is nearly demolished

For years 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood was a blemish on the community. The contaminated grounds had become overgrown with vegetation and it was used as an impromptu dumping ground for tires, sheetrock and trash. more

By Tyler Marko | 1/3/19

We must protect our drinking water

We all worry about drinking water — homeowners and business people alike — and why shouldn’t we? Flint, Mich., has become the poster city for water contamination . . . more

By Hilary Baum | 7/21/18

The Koch family from left Hazel, Nicole, Danny and Pearl volunteered their time to bag trash on April 22.

Picking up the trash from beaches in Atlantic Beach [Photo gallery]

Volunteers collected nearly 40 bags of debris and at least one car tire as they walked the entire Village of Atlantic Beach shoreline and the beach entrances during an Earth Day cleanup on April 22. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/3/18

Beneath the dilapidated exterior of 175 Roger Avenue, the soil was found to be contaminated with potentially harmful chemicals.

Demolishing and selling 175 Roger Avenue

A neighborhood blemish may finally be razed this summer. The former site of Rockaway Metal Products, a decaying building at 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood, is targeted to be demolished in the summer, according to County Legislator Carriè Solages (D-Elmont). more

By Tyler Marko | 3/8/18

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