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EPA

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Brooklyn Paper

Oil slicks and ‘black mayonnaise’: 45 years after historic oil spill, Newtown Creek is still recovering

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AMNY

AIR QUALITY ALERT: New Yorkers warned to stay inside as dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires covers the city

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NYC to purchase 51 new electric school buses with $18.5M in federal funds

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Glendale

Glendale-based freight railway named EPA ‘Smart Way’ partner

By Bill Parry
The Newtown Creek at the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge on the Long Island City/Brooklyn border
Long Island City

From green industry to waterfront parks, activists plan a cleaner future for Newtown Creek in Queens

By Robert Pozarycki
EPA targets radioactive site in Ridgewood
Ridgewood

EPA targets radioactive site in Ridgewood

By Mark Hallum
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Ridgewood

EPA finalizes plan to demolish businesses and apartments on Ridgewood’s radioactive site

By Anthony Giudice
Opinion

Bioswales plan is shortsighted

By Bob Harris
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Ridgewood

Buildings on a radioactive block of Ridgewood will be demolished as part of cleanup plan

By Anthony Giudice
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Politics

Op-Ed: Trump, the first 100 days

By Op-Ed
Queens schools test high for lead: Report
News

Queens schools test high for lead: Report

By Naeisha Rose
Opinion

Unconscionable EPA cuts deserve backlash

By Henry Euler
Ships on the Newtown Creek, which is now a Superfund site.
Long Island City

Make Queens toxic again? EPA cuts could slow cleanups in Ridgewood and at Newtown Creek

By Robert Pozarycki
Opinion

NE Queens residents leery about bioswales’ unintended consequences

By Bob Harris
Queens clean engine
Glendale

Taxpayer money for clean diesel engines went down the wrong track in Glendale’s Fresh Pond Rail Yard

By Anthony Giudice
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Congresswoman Meng pushes for EPA action on airplane noise

By Alina Suriel
Bay Terrace

Sen. Avella calls on DEC for probe into Lumber Liquidators

By Tom Momberg
Ridgewood

Ridgewood site lands on federal Superfund list

By Sarina Trangle
Ridgewood

Defunct Ridgewood factory site added to Superfund list

By Sarina Trangle
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Radioactive Ridgewood site added to Superfund list

By QNS News Team
Ridgewood site may join Superfund list
Ridgewood

Ridgewood site may join Superfund list

By Sarina Trangle
Fresh Meadows

Drilling in upstate shale may do more harm than good

By Bob Harris
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Radioactive Ridgewood site may get cleaned up

By Liam La Guerre
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Gov’t shutdown unfair to workers

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