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Posted in Community, Food, Health, Parks and Open Space, pollution on May 14th, 2009
The Times has an interesting piece on lead impacting people’s urban gardening efforts:
FRANK MEUSCHKE’S garden, which surrounds the house he rents in Brooklyn, is a bountiful source of tomatoes, snap peas, green beans, peppers, lettuce and multiple varieties of flowers. It is also, as he recently discovered to his dismay, a rich repository of lead. […]
Posted in Efficiently, Water, pollution on Apr 14th, 2009
Mike McGlauglin weighs the good and the bad of Gowanus’ possible designation as a superfund site. [Brooklyn Paper]
The E.P.A. is considering designating the Gowanus Canal as a superfund site. WNYC interviews David Yassky:
The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to find out. It’s proposing putting the industrial waterway in Brooklyn on its Superfund site. Councilman David Yassky, whose district includes the nearly two-mile long canal, says this is good news.
YASSKY: The Gowanus Canal, […]
Speaker Quinn and others just sent out this letter re: new idling laws. Check it out after the jump.
Posted in Urban Environment, Water, pollution on Jul 14th, 2008
[Image by flickr user mercurialn]
While we’re on the subject of stink, here’s some news about Newtown Creek.
From the Times:
Newtown Creek, the polluted estuary that separates Queens and Brooklyn, should be named a federal Superfund site, a move that could hasten long-stuttering cleanup efforts, a pair of New York lawmakers say.
Representatives Anthony D. Weiner and Nydia […]