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November
Monday, November 26, 2007
Environmentally Conscious Holiday Gifts Available from the Adirondack
Council Via Phone or Secure Internet - Items Range from
Less than $10 to around $200, Including Children's gifts; Scenic
Calendar, Poster Map and Local Adirondack Furniture
Monday, November 19, 2007
Friends of New York's Environment Press Release
Environmental Groups Support Continued Funding for Crucial Programs
Friday, November 2, 2007
Environmental Groups Remind Voters of Constitutional Amendment
on Nov. 6 Ballot Statewide Vote Would Authorize a Small
Adirondack Hamlet to Use Forest Preserve to Obtain Save Drinking
Water; Deal Would Increase Forest Preserve
October
Monday, October 29, 2007
Adirondack Council Praises Governor Spitzer, AG Cuomo & Encon
Officials; Critcizes APA & State Senate in 2007 "State
of the Park Report"- Comprehensive Review of Government
Officials' Actions Over the Past 12 Months
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Adirondack Council Praises Congressman McHugh's New Legislation
to Curb Acid Rain, Smog, Mercury & Carbon Emissions from
Power Plants Nationwide - Comprehensive Clean Air Legislation
Would Require Deeper, Faster Cuts in Pollution Than Current Federal
Clean Air Act Can Achieve
Thursday, October 18, 2007
US Senator Charles Schumer Press Release (with Adirondack Council's
Statement)
US
Senator Charles Schumer Fights to Restore Slashed Funding for
Vital Acid-Rain Monitorig Program
August
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Adirondack
Council Asks Why Tupper Lake Resort Developer Won't Reveal Reasons
for Extending Delays, Won't Communicate With Likely Hearing Parties
- Disputes Developer's Claim that He Had Meaningful Contact
with Council
Monday, August 20, 2007
Preserving
Pure Waters in the Face of Rapid Development is Focus of Adirondack
Water Quality Conference - Conference Brings Local Government,
Residents, Shoreline Owners Together with Professional Advisors
Who Will Help Plan Economic Growth without Pollution
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Environmental,
Public Health, and Consumer Groups Praise Governor Spitzer's
Veto of Segway Legislation
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Adirondack
Council Releases New Edition of Poster-Sized Park Forest Preserve
Map with 11 Illustrated Adirondack Ecosystems by Anne Lacey
- Update of 1994 Edition Reflects the Addition of Nearly 70,000
acres of New Public Land Since the First Map was Published; Public
Funding Eightfold Higher, Now $250 Million/Year
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Environmental Groups Call on Governor Spitzer to Veto Bill that
Would Allow "Segway" Scooters to Go Anywhere Pedestrians
Can Go
Monday, August 6, 2007
Adirondack Council Teams up With Local Furniture Maker to Offer
Authentic Adirondack Folding Chair Sporting the Council's "Forever
Wild" Logo
July
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Groups
Praise Governor for Signing Critical Environmental Legislation
-Environmental Protection Fund Increased to $300 million by
2009
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Wildlife Conservtion Society is Named 2007 Conservationist of
the Year by the Adirondack Council - Award to be Presented
at Split Rock Farm on Saturday
June
Monday, June 4, 2007
Council Calls on NYS Congressional Delegation to Restore Funding
for Crucial Acid Rain Monitoring - Latest Version of Federal
Budget Slashes Air Pollution Monitoring Sites
May
Wednesday, May 17, 2007
Council
Releases Fourth Volume of 2020 VISION Series of Plans for Protecting
the Park - First Three Volumes Became Blueprint for NYS
Open Space Conservation Plan in Park
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Assembly
En Con Committee Passes Bigger Better Bottle Bill: Groups
Call on State Law-Makers to Update the Bottle Bill this Session
April
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Adirondack
Environmental Orgs Prepared for Long, Tough Hearing on Controversial
700-unit Resort Planned for Tupper Lake -Organizations
Will Seek Party Status, Plan to Call Experts to Testify on Details
as Formal Adjudicatory Hearing Begins
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
New
York & New England States Develop Plan to Reduce Mercury
Deposition & Impacts in Fish (DEC press release)
Monday, April 2, 2007
Council Pleased with NYS Budget Boost for Northway Phones, Land,
Park Agency & DEC - Environmentalists Vindicated in
Settlement of Northway Phone Dispute
March
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Environmental
Groups Call on Cell Phone Companies to Stop Putting Profits Ahead
of Public Safety on Northway - New Tall-Towers Proposal
Better for Companies, Not Park or Motorists
February
Monday, February 26, 2007
Groups Call for Sensible Northway Cell Service that Protects
the Natural Resources of the Adirondack Park - Encourage
State to Pay for Cost of Less Intrusive Shorter Towers
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Council
Calls on Preserve Associates to Drop Plan for 700-Unit Resort
in Wake of APA Ruling - APA Ruling Signals Intent to Require
Major Modifications or Even Deny Permit for Massive Slope-side
Subdivision
January
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Adirondack & Statewide Environmental Organizations Call on
Spitzer Administration to Hold Formal Hearings on Controversial
700-unit Subdivision in Tupper Lake - Groups Send Message
to Governor & Letter to APA on Eve of Public Hearing oon
Adirondack Club and Resort Project
For more information on the news releases,
contact John Sheehan at (518) 432-1770
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