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Clearwater Joins Effort to Protect Coeymans Watershed with New Lawsuit
COEYMANS, NY – Hudson River Sloop Clearwater announced at a press conference today that it has filed a legal challenge to the Town of Coeymans’ recent zoning changes permitting heavy industrial use in the watershed [...]
Audible Advice on Edible Hudson River Fish
On the September 3 edition of MidHudsonNews.com's "Your Environment" spot, Dave Conover, Clearwater Education Director, provided a rundown on the who-what-and-why of eating fish caught from the Hudson River. Have a listen! [sc_embed_player_template1 fileurl="https://www.clearwater.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dave-Conover-Clearwaeter-05Sep14-FINAL-1.mp3"] [...]
Clearwater Brings In Toni Martin As Communications Director
Antoinette "Toni" Martin BEACON, NY– Clearwater has announced that Antoinette “Toni” Martin, a veteran journalist and communicator, has joined the organization as its new communications director. In this role, Martin handles all media [...]
Pete Seeger Exhibit Includes Clearwater Art
TEANECK, NJ –Ten artist sketches made aboard the sloop Clearwater’s 1969 maiden voyage are included in an exhibit honoring Pete Seeger’s life and legacy that opens Saturday, September 6, at 8 PM, at the Puffin Foundation’s [...]
Clearwater Supports More ‘Aggressive’ PCB Cleanup
In her most recent appearance on the MidHudsonNews.com internet radio program, "Your Environment," Clearwater Environmental Action Director Manna Jo Greene talks about the need for General Electric to agree to aggressively move forward with dredging [...]
Omari Washington Joins Clearwater as Green Cities Coordinator
Omari Washington Omari Washington has joined Clearwater as coordinator of the Green Cities initiative, which works with several river cities to bring environmental education, watershed awareness, and stewardship training to under-served communities, especially [...]
Swimming the Hudson for Pete and the River Pool
Clearwater's Roger D'Aquino - and his daughter, Stephanie D'Aquino - participated in the 11th Annual Great Newburgh to Beacon Hudson River Swim over the weekend. This year's mile-long swim across the Hudson from Torches in Newburgh to [...]
Clearwater Featured on Fox 5 TV
Fox 5 News aired a piece Friday, July 25, that was shot onboard the sloop Clearwater with middle-school children on a perfect summer day. Executive Director, Peter Gross, talks about the "leave no kid inside" goal of the [...]
Clearwater to DEC: Stop Indian Point Fish Kills
Clearwater's environmental director, Manna Jo Greene, is quoted in The New York Times report on the state DEC hearing held July 22 concerning planned shutdowns of Indian Point nuclear reactors as a way to diminish killing of fish and larvae. [...]