Green roof installed on City Hall
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: city hall, green roof
The installation of the new green roof on the City Hall B Building is complete. “I want to commend the Department of Environmental Services for its forward thinking and finding the resources to help us advance the cause of green infrastructure in Rochester,” said Mayor Thomas S. Richards. “Projects such as this demonstrate that Rochester [...]
UB institute finds fracking regs successful 
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: fracking, Pennsylvania, report, Shale Resources and Society Institute, UB
Members of the newly created University at Buffalo Shale Resources and Society Institute released a report Tuesday calling Pennsylvania’s regulation of hydrofracking activity in the Keystone State a success. The authors called the report, titled “Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies,” the first quantitative data review of Pennsylvania’s regulation of the [...]
Landowners assert right to frack for gas
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: fracking, landowners, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Property Rights
ALBANY — A coalition of upstate New York landowners seeking to lease land for natural gas drilling pressed state officials Wednesday to consider the rights of property owners as they make decisions on shale gas development. The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York was at the Capitol to present a “Declaration of Rights.” [...]
DEC invites Garlock to discuss EHS initiatives
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: DEC, EHS, Garlock Sealing Technologies
Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC’s award-winning solvent conversion project and other initiatives were the topic of discussion at a recent training conference with engineers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Jonathan Neubauer, senior environmental, health and safety specialist, and Thomas Bishop, manufacturing engineer, presented the program at the department’s Albany offices; the conference also [...]
Smokers’ rights group challenges smoking ban
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 1, 2012
Tags: ban, challenge, smokers' rights group, state parks
ALBANY — A smokers’ rights group is objecting to a new rule beginning this year that will prohibit smokers from using New York state’s parks, pools areas and beaches and historic sites as ash trays. The anti-smoking rule created in April by the state parks department would result in a disorderly conduct violation for smokers [...]
Pollution Prevention Institute adds programs
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 30, 2012
Tags: environmental conservation, Pollution Prevention Institute, RIT
Joseph Martens, Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, and Anahita Williamson, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute’s (NYSP2I) director, announced that two new programs have been added to the NYSP2I at Rochester Institute of Technology to help businesses market and develop green technology for the next two years. The DEC provided $1.6 million from the state [...]
Official: No date yet for fracking update
By The Associated Press
POSTED: April 19, 2012
Tags: DEC, fracking update, New York State
ALBANY — Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens says there’s no timeline for a decision on whether fracking of shale gas wells will be allowed in New York state, but the review will likely continue through the summer. Speaking at the annual Spring Environment Conference held by the Business Council in Albany on Thursday, [...]
With spring, state runoff law garners attention
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 19, 2012
Tags: lawn fertilizer, phosphorus, spring, state runoff law
The Dishwasher Detergent and Nutrient Runoff Law in New York took effect on Jan. 1, but the law is getting more attention with the arrival of the spring growing season. The law is intended to reduce the amount of fertilizer and dishwasher phosphorus that enters local waterways from streams and sewers. An overabundance of phosphorus [...]
Propane fracking considered for Marcellus Shale
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 13, 2012
Tags: DEC, fracking, high volume water fracking, Marcellus shale, propane
High volume water fracking is still under New York Department of Environmental Conservation review, but a group of Tioga County landowners reached an informal agreement in late March to develop up to 135,000 acres of Marcellus and Utica shale utilizing alleged green technology. The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) technology utilizes injected liquid propane or butane [...]
Landowners plan to frack using liquid propane
By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 30, 2012
Tags: fracking, landowners, liquid propane
ALBANY — An upstate landowners group may have found a way to get around the state’s de facto moratorium on shale gas drilling by using propane instead of water for hydraulic fracturing. Department of Environmental Conservation spokeswoman Emily DeSantis says Thursday the agency has met with the Tioga County landowners group to discuss shale [...]
Coalition launched to work for NY fracking ban
By The Associated Press
POSTED: March 26, 2012
Tags: coalition formed, fracking ban, grassroots
ALBANY — Dozens of grassroots environmental groups are joining forces to launch a coordinated campaign to ban natural gas development using high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York state. The effort launched Monday comes as the state Department of Environmental Conservation works to complete a four-year review of whether shale gas development using the controversial technology [...]
Community association restores brownfields
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: March 26, 2012
Tags: brownfields, community association, nonprofit
As George H. Moses, executive director of the nonprofit Group 14621 Community Association Inc., explains, brownfield site clean up and remediation is something the City of Rochester commonly does, but that is unique for a community organization. Rochester has a significant number of brownfields in areas that used to be used for industry, and remediation [...]
