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November
November 24, 2004
Eco-friendly
Holiday Gift Ideas from the Adirondack Council - Adirondack-Themed
Ideas for Thoughtful, Meaningful, Long-Lasting Holiday Gifts
That Support & Encourage Conservation, Wildlife Protection
& Pollution Prevention
October
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
'Frankenpine' Lurches Back to Laboratory Nextel
Partners Call Halt to Public Hearings, Return to Drawing Board
In Last-Minute Scramble to Change Design of Fake Pine Tree Cell
Tower
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Adirondack
Local Governments & APA Earn High Marks, NYS Legislature
Rated Lowest in Council's 2004 State of the Park Report
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Court
Upholds State Emergency Acid Rain Regulations Despite Yet Another
Challenge from Power Companies
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Adirondack
Council Supports Pataki Administration's New Acid Rain Regulations
for Power Plants - State is Replacing Rules Thrown
Out by Judge on Technicality,
September
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Council
Applauds EPA's Success in Reducing Acid Rain Throughout the Northeast
- Calls for Quick Finalization of Clean Air Interstate
Rule that Will Produce Even More Benefits
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Nature
Conservancy, Open Space Institute, and Adirondack Council Applaud
Senators Clinton and Schumer for Senate Forest Legacy $2.5 Million
for Tahawus
August
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
CP
Rail Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against the Adirondack Park Agency
- Action Thwarts Adirondack Council's Efforts to Join
Suit
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Adirondack
Council Acts to Defend Adirondack Park in Federal Suit Brought
by CP Rail - Environmental Group Seeks Party Status in
Dispute Over Construction on Park's 500-plus Miles of Rail Roads
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Adirondack
Council Lauds Legislature for Agreement to Compensate Park Towns
Hurt by State Timber Tax Breaks - Legislature to Ease
Unfunded Mandate on Park MunicipalitiesAs Adirondack Council
Had Requested in Spring Tax-Reform Report
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Adirondack
Council Commends Governor for APA Choice, Urges Senate to Approve
Nominee Ulrich
July
Friday, July 30, 2004
EPA
Administrator Leavitt, NYS ENCON Commissioner Crotty & APA
Chairman DR. Ross Whaley will be Featured Speakers at Second
Annual Adirondack Water Quality Conference
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Council
Calls on Canadian Pacific to Stop Rail-Roading Adirondack Park
Agency - Calgary-based RR Company Stampeding Natural Beauty
of NY's Scenic Treasure
Thursday, July 8, 2004
Proposed
Cell Tower Will Destroy Priceless Cultural Treasure by Changing
View of Lake George's Shore - Dramatic Shoreline &
Mountain Landscape -- Unchanged Since 19th Century -- Is Subject
of Hundreds of Hudson River School of Art Masterpiece Paintings
See the Council's Advertisement on the
Proposed Cell Tower in the Lake George's Local Newspaper.
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Open
Space Institute to Receive Adirondack Councils's Highest Honor
in July 10 Ceremony at Fort Ticonderoga - High Peaks and
Lake Champlain Land Projects Earn OSI Title of "Conservationist
of the Year"
June
Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Adirondack
Council Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Solve Drinking Water
Woes - Calls on Governor to Avert Conflict over Use of
the Forest Preserve
May
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Adirondack
Council Praises NYSDEC for Closing All-Terrain Vehicle Access
in Western Adirondacks - Action is Warranted, Given Well-Documented
Damage by ATVs
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Proposed Air Pollution Controls are Already Causing Rise in Price
of Avoiding Cleanup - Companies Installing Smokestack
Controls Because They're Cheaper Than Polluting
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Legislators
Join with Adirondack & Bird Conservation Groups to Educate
Public as Lead Sinker Ban Becomes Law
April
Thursday,
April 29, 2004
Adirondack
Council Calls on Legislature to Scrap Old, Complex Timberland
Property Tax Abatement Programs -Report released calls for reforms,
including a new tax abatement program funded by the state
Click
here to view report.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Governor Pataki's Press
Release
Gov. Pataki Announces Largest
Land Preservation Deal in State History - Will Preserve Nearly
260,000 Acres in the Adirondacks
Tuesday, April
13, 2004
Private
Company Threatens Adirondack Wilderness Area -
Council Calls on APA & Attorney General to Review Whether
Plan & Previous Actions Violate State Law
March
March 22, 2004
Adirondack Council, State's Sportsmen & Congressmen Sweeney
and McHugh Call on New Yorkers to Support EPA Clean Air Regs
March 2, 2004
Adirondack
Council Joins Local Officials, Timber Lobby to Support Relief
from Burdernsome Tax Mandate
February
February 25,
2004
Adirondack
Council Urges Support for Proposed Interstate Air Quality Rule
- If
Approved, the Regs Would Stop Acid Rain Damage
in Adirondacks & Improve Human Health Nationwide - Raliegh-Durham, N.C.
February 25,
2004
Adirondack
Council Urges Support for Proposed Interstate Air Quality Rule
- If Approved,
the Regs Would Stop Acid Rain Damage
in Adirondacks & Improve Human Health Nationwide - Chicago, Illinois
February 25,
2004
Adirondack
Council Urges Support for Proposed Interstate Air Quality Rule
- If Approved,
the Regs Would Stop Acid Rain Damage
in Adirondacks & Improve Human Health Nationwide - Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia
February 2, 2004
Nature
Conservancy, Open Space Institute, and Adirondack Council Applaud
Bush Administration’sProposal for FY2005 Forest Legacy Funding
-Released,
For more
information on the following news releases,
contact John Sheehan at (518) 432-1770
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