Did you know that North Brooklyn’s industrial legacy left behind an alphabet soup of toxins – TCE, PCBs, phthalates, benzene, and many other chemicals – that’s lingering beneath the surface in many sections […]
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Important Meeting on Superfund Nuhart Plastics this Monday!
Time to talk about our favorite superfund Nuhart Plastics again. Recent developments are underway to turn the festering superfund site into affordable luxury apartments. Disturbed at that thought? Chew […]
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UPDATE: Superfund Nuhart Plastics. Seriously, you REALLY need to read this!
Since last Thursday’s meeting, many of you have written me personally expressing concerns about Nuhart’s status and what it means for the hood when a Superfund cleans up its act […]
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Getty To Pay $16 Million Towards Clean Up Of Toxic Newtown Creek
In 1978 a US Coast Guard helicopter on a routine check spotted oil spilling into Newtown Creek. An estimated 30 million gallons leaked into the soil and water, causing health […]
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Newtown Creek Armada, Coastal Clean-up, Capital to Capital Canoe Expedition: What’s New at Newtown Creek?
There’s a whole sludge of events at Greenpoint’s very own Superfund site, Newtown Creek. State of the Planet, a blog from the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is reporting that […]
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Is Greenpoint Safe? 10 Things To Do
Do you find it ironic that Greenpoint features the environmentally friendly Rooftop Farms, the new McGolrick Park Farmers Market, a Clean Green Dry Cleaners on Nassau Ave, among many other […]
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Superfunding The Newtown Creek
Over a year ago, on September 27, 2010, the EPA opened a new chapter on the ongoing saga of our polluted waterway by designating the Newtown Creek a federally recognized […]