Today, everyone is conscious of pollution and its detrimental effects on our environment and health. The most common forms are water, air and plastic pollution, but there is another type . . .
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By Brian Curran
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9/14/23
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Nearly eight years after Hurricane Sandy washed through the Five Towns, more than $3 million from the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery and a $450,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency were poured into repairing Hewlett Harbor’s stormwater infrastructure to stem flooding.
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By Lisa Margaria
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9/30/21
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Fieldwork is scheduled to continue the week of April 5 on the $24.7 million portion of a $46.2 million cleanup project at a groundwater plume Superfund site at 1274 Peninsula Blvd. in Hewlett, according to Environmental Protection Agency officials.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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3/31/21
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler took part in several events in the South Bronx that focused on food waste, a major project of Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! founded by Syd Mandelbaum.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/3/19
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For years 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood was a blemish on the community. The contaminated grounds had become overgrown with vegetation and it was used as an impromptu dumping ground for tires, sheetrock and trash.
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By Tyler Marko
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1/3/19
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We all worry about drinking water — homeowners and business people alike — and why shouldn’t we? Flint, Mich., has become the poster city for water contamination . . .
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By Hilary Baum
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7/21/18
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Picking up the trash from beaches in Atlantic Beach
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Volunteers collected nearly 40 bags of debris and at least one car tire as they walked the entire Village of Atlantic Beach shoreline and the beach entrances during an Earth Day cleanup on April 22.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/3/18
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A neighborhood blemish may finally be razed this summer. The former site of Rockaway Metal Products, a decaying building at 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood, is targeted to be demolished in the summer, according to County Legislator Carriè Solages (D-Elmont).
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By Tyler Marko
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3/8/18
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