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Dolphin Spotting in Newtown Creek
(Image courtesy of Ann Fraioli)This morning, a couple of teachers from the Harbor School were down at the Newtown Creek in Brooklyn and snapped this photo, of what they believe is a dolphin. Could it...
View ArticleUnderreported Update: Newtown Creek Gets Superfund Status
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency named Newtown Creek, the polluted industrial waterway that runs between Brooklyn and Queens, a Superfund site. On today’s Underreported Update, Katie...
View ArticleQueens Wants Equal Attention from EPA During Newtown Creek Cleanup
Newtown Creek, a heavily polluted waterway that separates Queens and Brooklyn, was given designation last month that will allow it to be cleaned up under the federal Superfund program. Now a group of...
View ArticleExxon Agrees to Settlement Over Newtown Creek Contamination
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is announcing a settlement Wednesday afternoon of federal litigation against Exxon Mobil for contaminating parts of Greenpoint, Brooklyn.Over several decades, 17 to...
View ArticleExxon Mobil Agrees to Multimillion Dollar Clean-up of Greenpoint
Current New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo came to the blustery banks of the Newtown Creek Wednesday to announce a landmark settlement that will force Exxon Mobil to clean-up a...
View ArticleModel Boats Set to Launch From Polluted Newtown Creek
A fleet of artist-made, remote-controlled model boats will launch from Newtown Creek this weekend as part of an effort to draw attention to the waterway between Queens and Brooklyn that is considered...
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Love Stinks: A Valentine's Day Tour of the City's Sewage Plant
"Only our love hath no decay," the Renaissance poet John Donne once wrote, and in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, at the city’s largest waste water sewage treatment plant, couples came to prove it.Only our love...
View ArticleNYC Expands Food Waste Energy Program
An experimental program that converts New Yorkers' food scraps into natural gas will be expanded. The pilot program, launched last summer by the city's Department of Environmental Protection, now...
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Tiny Creatures Breathe New Life Into a Toxic Waterway
In 2009, LaGuardia Community College biology professor Dr. Sarah Durand was taking water samples off of a set of steps that lead down into Newtown Creek, when she saw something surprising.The demands...
View ArticleWant the Gowanus Canal to Be Swimmable? You Can Help Clean it Up
Today, it'd be a horrible idea to go swimming (without a state-of-the-art protective suit) in New York City’s heavily polluted Newtown Creek or Gowanus Canal. But, one day, you might be able to. The...
View ArticleA plan to convert organic waste into fuel hits a snag
Much of New York City’s organic waste ends up at the Newtown Creek treatment plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. But the plant has recently been having problems converting methane gas from the food scraps...
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