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Journal News and lohud win NYC press awards for Indian Point, Metro-North series

Journal News and lohud win NYC press awards for Indian Point, Metro-North series

The Journal News and Lohud.com received top honors from New York City-based press associations for reporting on the Indian Point nuclear power plant and Metro-North commuter rail at events held over the past week. The Society of The Silurians awarded investigative reporter Thomas C. Zambito a medallion, its top prize, in the environmental reporting category...

LOCAL 1-2 UPDATE – INDIAN POINT TALKS GOING TO WIRE, PRACTICE STRIKE PICKET SET FOR JAN. 16 AT INDIAN POINT, ENTERGY SLOW TO OFFER TERMS

Marilyn Elie, a long time union supporter and a member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition expressed sympathy for workers at Indian Point.  “It is their careful work that stands between us and a nuclear accident” she said. She added that the Independent System Operator, regulators of our grid, recently released a report showing...

“Closing Indian Point Good for the Hudson River, Public Safety and Economy”

Closing Indian Point Good for the Hudson River, Public Safety and Economy Thursday, April 6, 2017 — Scenic Hudson Contact: Jay Burgess Director of Communications, Scenic Hudson, Inc. Tel: (845) 473-4440 x222 Cell: (914) 489-0362 Fax: (845) 473-0740 jburgess@scenichudson.org HUDSON VALLEY—Following an announcement yesterday by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino that the county intends to...
AXS TV Premieres INDIAN POINT Nuclear Power Plant Documentary - Sat. March 11

AXS TV Premieres INDIAN POINT Nuclear Power Plant Documentary – Sat. March 11

AXS TV is honored to premiere the award-winning documentary INDIAN POINT on Sat. March 11 at 10pE/7pP. INDIAN POINT presents a balanced look at the fight to have the NY nuclear power plant shut down. AXS TV PRESENTS A FASCINATING LOOK AT ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL POWER PLANTS IN THE TELEVISION PREMIERE OF THE...

INDIAN POINT IS SCHEDULED TO CLOSE AND FUKUSHIMA IS STILL A CATASTROPHE

Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition INDIAN POINT IS SCHEDULED TO CLOSE AND FUKUSHIMA IS STILL A CATASTROPHE Stopping the reactors is just the first step.  How do you safely store 2,000 tons of radioactive material that is lethal for 240,000 years? Can a radioactive site be decontaminated so it can be used for commerce and...
March 11: Fukushima Remembered in Peekskill

March 11: Fukushima Remembered in Peekskill

Fukushima Is Forever – Radioactive Waste at Indian Point March 11, 2017, 1:30 PM Peekskill Presbyterian Church, 705 South St. 10:00 Peace Walkers Assemble at Cortlandt Train Station and begin their walk. 12:43 NYC friends leave Grand Central for Peekskill. 1:30 Start time for Fukushima Remembrance. People will arrive to quiet music. Marcia Slatkin, poet,...

Riverkeeper Uncovers Oil Spill at Indian Point

“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For more information: Tina Posterli, (516) 526-9371 November IP2 transformer explosion led to Spill into Hudson River Ossining, NY – December 2, 2010 – Riverkeeper announced today that last month’s electrical transformer explosion at Indian Point resulted in thousands of gallons of oil being released into the environment and the Hudson River....

20,000 EXCESS CANCER CASES IN 15 YEARS NEAR INDIAN POINT NEW REPORT SUGGESTS RADIATION EXPOSURE MAY BE ONE CAUSE

20,000 EXCESS CANCER CASES IN 15 YEARS NEAR INDIAN POINT NEW REPORT SUGGESTS RADIATION EXPOSURE MAY BE ONE CAUSE Contact Joseph Mangano                                                       609-399-4343 odiejoe@aol.com November 18, 2010 – Cancer incidence rates in the four counties closest to the Indian Point nuclear plant have risen much more rapidly than U.S. rates since the early 1990s, according...

DEC Denies Water Quality Certificate for Indian Point

Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition For Immediate Release DEC Denies Water Quality Certificate for Indian Point The Department of Environmental Conservation has taken a major and historic step toward ending the rape of the Hudson River by Indian Point. For the last 30 years Units 2 and 3 have decimated the ecosystem as they used...

Entergy Rebuked by New York State Attorney General in Enexus Case: Decision Pending

Entergy Rebuked by New York State Attorney General in Enexus Case: Decision Pending By Press Release on February 11, 2010 For Immediate Release: Paul Burns, VPIRG 802-793-1985 The Office of New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo blasted Entergy officials yesterday for more corporate shenanigans from a company already mired in controversy here in Vermont. ...

NY State Supreme Court Affirms that Indian Point Adversely Impacts Fish
Riverkeeper and DEC victorious in effort to bring plant into compliance with CWA

June 26, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact:  Andrea Kott (914) 478-4501 x 239 akott@riverkeeper.org NY State Supreme Court Affirms that Indian Point Adversely Impacts Fish
Riverkeeper and DEC victorious in effort to bring plant into compliance with CWA (TarrytownRiverkeeper and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and dismissed Entergy’s petition to overturn a decision by the...

SCREENING PROGRAM TO TEST IF INDIAN POINT HAS HARMED THYROID GLANDS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS

For immediate release   Contact Joseph Mangano 609-399-4343         Sharon Cunningham 647-477-5672 June 3, 2009 – A fast, inexpensive test that determines elevated thyroid stimulating hormone, an indcator that the thyroid gland may be under stress, will be available at a public event later this month.  The ThyroChek testing program will examine if persons living near the...