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Clearwater Partners with 1% for the Planet

May 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Clearwater Partners with 1% for the Planet

BEACON, NY, May 4, 2015 – Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is a new nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of over 1,200 member companies in 41 countries that give one percent [...]

Hudson River Advocates Take Anti-PCB Fight to Albany

May 28th, 2015|Comments Off on Hudson River Advocates Take Anti-PCB Fight to Albany

ALBANY, NY - Public health advocates joined Hudson River fishers, boaters and municipal officials to urge GE to address its outstanding obligations — beyond the current EPA-mandated project — to do much more to clean up the [...]

Aaron Mair, Environmental Justice Advocate, Heads Sierra Club

May 20th, 2015|Comments Off on Aaron Mair, Environmental Justice Advocate, Heads Sierra Club

Aaron Mair, the newly elected – and first African-American - president of the national Sierra Club calls himself an “angler from Peekskill,” who first became involved with environmental issues because he learned that eating fish [...]

New Clearwater Program Combats Invasive Species

May 15th, 2015|Comments Off on New Clearwater Program Combats Invasive Species

BEACON, NY - Clearwater has launched an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Program to help raise awareness about harmful non-native species and get people involved in preventing their spread. The AIS Program is funded by the Lower [...]

Indian Point Fire Sparks New Calls for Closure

May 11th, 2015|Comments Off on Indian Point Fire Sparks New Calls for Closure

BUCHANAN, NY - The transformer explosion and fire at the 40-year-old Indian Point Nuclear plant on Friday, May 9, appears to have resulted in an oil spill, as photographs taken over the weekend show a [...]

Feds: Fish Still Toxic from G.E. PCBs

May 8th, 2015|Comments Off on Feds: Fish Still Toxic from G.E. PCBs

A new federal agency report says the PCBs discharged into the Hudson River by General Electric for decades continue to “severely curtail” public fishing. The Fisheries Consumption Report by the Hudson River Natural Resources Trustees [...]

Take the Clearwater Solar Pledge!

April 22nd, 2015|Comments Off on Take the Clearwater Solar Pledge!

Help transition to a truly Green Energy Economy by taking the Clearwater Solar Power Pledge! Join us in taking a pledge to install 5 or more kilowatts of solar power this year – or cause it [...]

Spotlight on Board Member Steve Smith

February 2nd, 2015|Comments Off on Spotlight on Board Member Steve Smith

Stephen Smith, center, accepts staff Appreciation Award. Board member William Flank, left, Development Director Matt Soper, right. At the Feb. 28 Clearwater Board of Directors meeting, one member – Stephen Smith – was [...]

Clearwater Honored by NY Bar Association

February 2nd, 2015|Comments Off on Clearwater Honored by NY Bar Association

At the NYS Bar Association award ceremony, L-R: Clearwater Board member Ross Gould, NYSBA's Terresa Bakner, Board member Stephen Filler, Executive Director Peter Gross, NYSBA's Barry Kogut, Board VP James Hanson, Development Director Matt [...]