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Press Releases 2007

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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




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contact John Sheehan at (518) 432-1770

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