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Blog Posts
Plastic Reduction and Recycling Bill Advances in State Legislature With Plastics and Chemical Industry Opposition
April 13, 2024
Recent articles in The New Republic and Exxon Knews detail progress in the New York state legislature in passing a new plastic packaging reduction bill to reduce the amount of plastic trash, and the resistance to it that the oil and chemical...
Upcoming Repair Cafes Will Fix Household Items And Cut Waste
March 7, 2024
An article in the February 21 edition of the Review and Express for Schuyler County detailed two upcoming events to repair household items and minimize waste.
The Birds and Bees Protection Act Awaits...
December 13, 2023
By Dick Kurtz--"In 2023, the NY Legislature passed the Birds and Bees Protection Act. Today that act sits on Governor Hochul's desk unsigned.
The Birds and Bees Protection Act bans Neonicotinoid coatings on seeds. Neonicotinoids (Neonics) are a...
Composting Our Way To Climate Stability
December 13, 2023
In my food scraps composting article in the Spring issue of the Finger Lakes Sierran, I described my search to find a site to compost my food scraps at the end of a trip to Phoenix, AZ. Although I had to bring my scraps back to New York to compost,...
The Finger Lakes Group Fights Land Spreading of Sewage Sludge
December 13, 2023
Bill Mattingly-Chair of the Finger Lakes Group "The Finger Lakes Group is taking action to stop local land spreading of sewage sludge. New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wants to dramatically increase the amount of...