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No parking at Riverside Garage? Brooklyn
Heights Blog
BHB just got word that the state Division of Housing & Community Renewal has rejected
the landlord’s proposal to build a garage at the Riverside Apartments
at the westernmost end of Joralemon Street. more ......
In Loving Memory of Luke Cole
The National Lawyers Guild
Environmental Justice Committee mourns the devastating loss of Luke
Cole, long-time environmental justice and civil rights activist and
attorney. Luke died on June 6th from injuries sustained in a car
accident in Uganda while on a sabbatical. Luke was the executive
director and founder of the Center on Race, Poverty & the
Environment (CRPE), an environmental justice litigation organization
based in northern California, known for its community-led style of
litigation.
The national Lawyers Guild Environmetnal jsutice Committee has esteblished the LUKE COLE KICK ASS BRIEF BANK.... stay tuned for details
More Artificial Turf Found with
Lead, as California Attorney General Files Lawsuits
more info
NYC:
Gas Drilling Will Raise the Cost of Water by 30 Percent
Water
expert: public health is top drilling issue
A Corner of
Indonesia, Sinking
in a Sea of Mud - The mud erupted here during
exploratory drilling for natural gas, and it has grown to be one of the
largest mud volcanoes ever to have affected a populated area. NYTimes S.Mydans
In
fake grass, some see real threat - Tests reveal lead in school fields
BOSTON GLOBE Jan. 19, 2009 --- The field at
Concord-Carlisle High School contained nearly 300 parts per million
lead in the Boston Globe-commissioned test....
OBAMA WIN! yet the
struggle goes on...
beware of the Bush Oval Office
scramble to change the rules and regs in the next few weeks -see
what we can do -stay tuned: ACTION
WashPost: A
Last Push to Regulate -White House to Ease Many Rules
see www.ombwatch.org
SEE/HEAR: Democracy Now! interview with OMB Watch's Matthew Madea
CURRENT PROJECTS AND
CASES:
INFORMATION ABOUT
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
-RULES CHANGE TO
BE
POSTED SOON
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NEW ANALYSIS :
PHTHYLATES, LEAD &
CADMIUM TAINTED PRODUCTS ---------10-21-08- bracelet,charm,dish
& bib #08-3901 -------------------------------------11-03-08
star ball with battery -Mercury #08-4275 -------------------------------
CITIZEN
PARTICIPATION - Proposal to Increase Law Review Article - PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN
ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONMAKING AT THE NEW MILLENNIUM: STRUCTURING NEW
SPHERES OF PUBLIC INFLUENCE
ABDICATES TO
BUSINESS
HIGHLAND PARK/RIDGEWOOD RESERVOIR
ALLIANCE
Save
Ridgewood Reservoir blog
A Wilderness, Lost in the City OP ED by William Thomson &
Robert Kennedy Jr ==. NY Times
Lead found in artificial turf at 2 prep stadiums http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D954LI6O0.html
JEROME PARK RESERVOIR latest
court hearing
SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN MARINE
TRANSFER STATION - opposing the building of a new waste
transfer station on the contaminated site of former illegal incinerator
- click
here for information and documents on the project.
The latest ALJ
Memo -August 6, 2008
WORLD
TRADE CENTER: Benzman v. Whitman-The appeal
decision from Judge Batts
decision has been issued by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals... Defendant's
intial appeals brief. === APPEALS COURT DECISION
NYELJP
PRESS RELEASE: Documents reveal EPA & City
Knowledge of toxic danger in Lower Manhattan in October 2001. see also Supporting Document
GLOBAL WARMING reccomended read The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
Suggested Read: Forced
displacement of African-Americans in New York City
will drive the international hierarchical di usion
ofevolutionarily-transformed HIV - Rodrick Wallace
ARTIFICIAL TURF . NYC
Dept Of Health Review NYS Dept Of
Ed Advisories
May 2008 NYSDEC ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW CRUMB RUBBER
Croton Water Purification Project: THE BRONX
COUNCIL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (BCEQ), et. al v.THE NEW YORK CITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (DEP), et. al, (Index # 260287 of 2008) will
be heard on September 3, 2008.latest
court hearing The next Croton Filtration Monitoring
Committee meeting will be held:Thursday, September 187 PM DEP's
community office 3660 Jerome Avenue, Bronx NY 10467.
In addition to an update on jobs and local purchases,
the agenda will
include a DEP update about construction activities at Jerome Park
Reservoir and DOHMH will present information about rodent index and
control at Jerome Park Reservoir, focusing on DOHMH and DEP's
coordination efforts to minimize impacts of rodents during construction
VAPOR INTRUSION TENANT NOTIFICATION: -
NEW NYS BILL (A.10952-B/S.8634) article about passage of the bill ----NYSDOH Guidance for Evaluating Soil Intrusion in the State of New York, (2006)- DER-13/Strategy For
Evaluating Soil and Vapor Intrusions at Remedial Sites in New York, DEC
Program Policy. Oct. 18, 2006
PAST CASES:
Washington Square
Park: DOCUMENTS: Emergency Coalition to Save Washington
Square Park et al. v. The City of New York et al.,.
New BID REQUEST is out. see DPR
ModIfication Technical Memo Judge Madden's decision expected in
late September.
Deutsche
Bank: The Law Project mourns the loss of two valiant
firefighters. The toxic danger posed by this building continues to
threaten the people of New York. See previous
research.
EPA
Releases Risk Assesment:The EPA has
released a risk assesment on organophosphate pesticides, some of which
have been approved despite their toxicity. Public comment is needed!
Click above to read the Federal Register entry.
Pesticide
Spraying: A recent press release from the DOH vastly understates the toxicity and danger presented to
residents from the use of sumithrin.
Pier 57: NY
Environmental Law and Justice Project v. NYPD- The NYPD
has moved to reargue after a favorable decision by the court ordering
them to release documents...read the decision and more by clicking above.
We mourn the passing of Brad Will, activist extradoniare
The NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE PROJECT is
affiliated with the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE
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