Niagara County lawmakers are attempting to throw some roadblocks in front of 75,000 tons of contaminated waste bound for the Town of Porter.

The Stillwater Town Supervisor recently found out there are some PCB's in the water supply now. He's worried about what will happen during dredging.

Though PCBs were recently found in drinking water in Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck, the state Department of Health says the systems tested were all within drinking water standards set under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

PCBs have turned up in the village's drinking water and even though levels are considered safe, village officials are looking for another place to get water, according to Mayor Ernest Martin.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sued the owners of a Washington County scrap metal recycler for "years of environmental damage" allegedly caused by improper recycling and storage methods.

Up to a point, the facts of the case are simple: A PCB-contaminated site near Albany requires cleanup.

The US Department of Energy considers the waste water produced in gas drilling to be some of the most toxic of all industrial byproducts. How will it be handled if plans to drill the Marcellus Shale--loaded with natural gas--proceed?

With the detection of PCBs in the village's water supply, New York community officials are more adamant than ever to convince the EPA to allot funding for an alternative drinking source during the upcoming dredging project.

Top state environmental officials assured state lawmakers that plans to drill for natural gas near the watershed that supplies New York City's drinking water posed little danger.

In an attempt to shut down a Hudson Falls junkyard, the state attorney general has filed a second lawsuit, alleging the business polluted the environment and harmed the health of neighbors.

It's time to face the reality that the American economy is in serious trouble and our current energy policy is fueling the problem.

New York State is suing East Side Used Auto Parts for storing tires and batteries incorrectly causing health problems in neighbors.

The state Attorney General's office is suing owners of a Washington County junkyard for years of environmental damage caused by allowing toxic chemicals to foul the air and water.

Research of colony collapse disorder at this stage is taking a multipronged approach, looking into a number of causes: pathogens, pa-rasites, pesticides, stress and malnutrition.

As fuel-related charges pushed electric bills to record highs, the Long Island Power Authority over the past 10 years kept up a lively program of testing a bizarrely diverse, and sometimes costly, range of energy projects, often with mixed results.

A state proposal to ban most open burning is fanning debates across the region.

Dennis Remsburger makes his living from bees and honey. Advertisement But he's a little nervous about whether that will be viable in the future.

Former Vice President Al Gore can be annoyingly self-righteous in his adopted role as spokesman for Earth, but he does serve to keep the environment in the public conscience.

The EPA says traditional refrigeration systems that use older chemicals have a global warming potential 3,000 times greater than the new system, which uses R-404A, a hydrofluorocarbon blend, to condense carbon dioxide in the air.

By 2012, East Fishkill residents affected by contamination from the Hopewell Precision, Inc. facility may have clean water.