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We'll say it again — fund the Bay Park pipe

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rejected the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s request to fund a $690 million outflow pipe that would stretch from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant three miles into the Atlantic Ocean. more

6/19/14

We need an outflow pipe to the ocean

Residents and environmentalists have long urged county and state officials to be more aggressive in their efforts to upgrade Nassau County’s aging sewage treatment plants. more

1/23/14

Tales of an eager garbage picker (condoms excepted)

I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/4/13

Volunteer your time to restoring our wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. more

2/28/13

Garbage collected during Op-SPLASH 22 last year.

Volunteer your time to restoring the South Shore's wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. more

2/26/13

Operation SPLASH, a Freeport-based nonprofit environmental group, has scheduled its annual Op-SPLASH cleanup for March 16, in Freeport. At last year’s cleanup in East Rockaway, above, volunteers loaded trash onto a barge.

Restoring the South Shore's Sandy-ravaged wetlands

Like no other storm since the “Long Island Express” of 1938, Hurricane Sandy ripped apart Long Island’s South Shore, lifting docks off their moorings and depositing them miles away, tearing hot tubs from backyard decks and dumping them in the canals that line the coast, and sending boats big and small hurtling out to sea. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/26/13

Dear Miss Kitty, I will never forget you

Crude oil pours into the Louisiana wetlands, Taliban operatives target Times Square, the stock market swoons into a dead faint and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul says on national TV that he’s not so crazy about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. more

Randi Kreiss | 5/30/10

We’re drowning in an ocean of black oil

Yeah! Drill, baby, drill! Let’s suck every last drop of oil from the ocean floor in the waters off the good ol’ U.S. of A., and to heck with the environment and the environmental regulations holding us up from taking what’s ours — oil, beautiful, black oil, the world’s carbon legacy passed down to us by God to power our nation, keep us safe and make us rich. more

Scott Brinton | 5/6/10

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