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One Year To Stop Danskammer: The Countdown Begins
One Year To Stop Danskammer: The Countdown Begins We need your help…Together we will stop this! RSVP for March 23rd Update and Training Session: https://actionnetwork.org/events/march23rdtraining?source=direct_link& The time has finally come-- the official public hearings on Danskammer [...]
March 2021 Environmental Action Update
March 2021 Environmental Action Update Big News! Danskammer Update: Siting Board deems the Danskammer application complete. On Feb. 16 the Chairman of the NYS Public Service Commission, who chairs the Article 10 Siting Board, [...]
Action Alert: Public Hearing on Indian Point Transfer to Holtec 2/23/21
Make Your Voice Heard on Indian Point License Transfer: Indian Point’s final reactor will be shutting down in April 2021. With its closure, the plant will begin the decommissioning phase. The current owner, Entergy, is [...]
Remembering Clearwater’s First Captain, Allan Aunapu
The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater organization mourns the passing of the sloop's first Captain, Allan J. Aunapu. Killed in a tragic accident in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, February 11th, 2021, Aunapu was [...]
Spotify Playlist: Winter Maintenance Vol. 1
Spotify Playlist: Winter Maintenance Vol. 1 Listen to the Winter Maintenance Playlist put together by former crew members here: https://bit.ly/WinterMaintenanceVol1 What Music and Clearwater Mean to Me: A message inspired by an entry in the [...]
Black History Month: Uplifting the Voices of the Unheard
Black Voices of the Hudson Valley: Past and Present Clearwater stands firm in the continued fight for Black lives, knowing that there cannot be climate justice without social justice. As we celebrate Black [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Work of Environmental Protection and Justice
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Work of Environmental Protection and Justice By Sherrilyn Ifill* I rarely engage in popular speculation about whether Dr. King would have joined or supported this or that contemporary [...]
Environmental Action Update: January 2021
by Manna Jo Greene and Matt Salton Emerging Contaminants -- PFAS In Rockland Water: For several years, Clearwater has been working with the Newburgh Clean Water Coalition and others on the serious PFOS contamination of [...]
Snowed in on the Rondout Creek
Snowed in on the Rondout Creek by Captain Nick Rogers The Clearwater and Brigid in the Snow I wanted to take some time to share what we are doing [...]