Dan, your post is thoroughly persuasive to me, but I’m not sure that it would persuade many climate skeptics.  There are two reasons for this: 1)  You assume that there is at least a 50/50 chance of climate change occurring.  That is a highly conservative assumption — except for climate skeptics.  Most climate skeptics are [...]

Land Letter reports that Lake Mead has continued to recede in the face of an 11-year drought, as we are apparently heading into a La Nina period that will probably continue the drought.  This will put some pressure on adaptation measures, particular in terms of Las Vegas: For Las Vegas, which draws 90 percent of [...]

For Immediate Release Contact Jeff Tittel, 609-558-9100 April 30, 2010 DEP Promises Action on Perchlorate DEP Commissioner, Bob Martin, has finally agreed to implement a perchlorate standard. Perchlorate is a chemical found in fertilizer and rocket fuel that has been identified in the drinking water supply. It causes thyroid disorders in children and adults. Perchlorate [...]

Acid Rain Impacts Topic of Program From The Walton Reporter (no website), April 14, 2010 Two U.S. Geological Survey scientists will share the results of their research on the effects of acid deposition on trees and streams of the Catskills at a program to be held Thursday, April 29, at 4:30 P.m. in the Seelig [...]

West Kill Spring Scenic 2, originally uploaded by Anton de Flon. From The Walton Reporter (no website), January 27, 2010 By Glenn Graves WALTON – The Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District (DCSWCD) will administer a new incentive of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to protect and manage stream banks [...]

NYC’s Catskill watershed provides clean drinking water to eleven million people in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It is one of the nation’s most critial water supply areas.  It is also unique in that the EPA has granted New York City a filtration requirement waver as long as the City maintains the high level of water quality. One of [...]

natural gas drilling, originally uploaded by arimoore. From NY H2O- GAS DRILLING CONTAMINATES WATER NATIONWIDE. BUT WE CAN SAVE NY! SAVE THE DELAWARE RIVER! The Delaware River Basin Commission is at it again… Stone Energy Corporation is trying to ‘frack’ with the protected Delaware River. We need everyone at the Public Hearing to stand up [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 16, 2009. The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) reported yesterday that its review of the 2004, 2005, and 2006 storm events, utilizing the new Delaware River Basin Flood Analysis Model, demonstrate that widespread river flooding would have occurred regardless of the pre-event storage conditions in the upper basin [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), January 27, 2010. New York State Senator John Bonacic said, last week, that New York City should purchase natural gas drilling rights in the watershed, rather than try to have the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) prohibit the drilling through regulation. Bonacic said the attempt to have gas [...]

From the Walton Reporter, abbreviated, January 20, 2010 (The article expressed the disapproval of a New York Attorney General settlement with five healthcare facilities within the NYC watershed to cease flushing unused pharmaceuticals down sinks and toilets, and to pay a fine of less than $18,000 for the five institutions combined. The board felt the [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 23, 2009. DELHI – The Delaware County Board of Supervisors has gone on record as supporting the process used by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to create an environmental impact statement as part of the process of creating regulations for drilling of natural gas [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 23, 2009. DOWNSVILLE – The Colchester Town Council has passed a resolution in support of natural gas development in the town, and the town supervisor says he believes drilling fo natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation that extends through Delaware County will be critical to the economic [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 30, 2009. (The following letter was sent to Colchester Supervisor Robert Homovich, the letter writer has informed The Walton Reporter and asked that it be printed here.) Dear Mr. Homovich, I am due to inherit land in Colchester, not far from Shinhopple, and I am deeply upset that [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 30, 2009. Local opponents to the development of gas drilling in the region have asked the Delaware County Board of Supervisors to hold another meeting on gas drilling. In a letter written by Carole Marner of Franklin, the group says a previous meeting of the board only included [...]

From the Walton Reporter (no website), December 30, 2009. According to a report commissioned by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), natural gas drilling and exploration are incompatible with the operation of New York City’s unfiltered water supply system and pose unacceptable risks for more than nine million New Yorkers in the [...]