Citizens Campaign for the Environment

Residents' concerns about a proposed expansion of the Covanta energy-from-waste facility in Hempstead Town ranged from noise, odor and truck traffic to questionable tax breaks and related construction jobs going to non-Long Islanders. The majority of...

Newly named New York Power Authority chief executive Richard Kessel is drawing up a 10-year plan that includes a wind farm "of significant size" off the Atlantic coast and a new sub-Atlantic power cable, he said Thursday. The wind farm would be in...

Two respected environmental groups came out swinging last week in Long Island's most hotly contested State Senate race, where Brookhaven Democratic Supervisor Brian Foley is trying to unseat 35-year Republican incumbent Caesar Trunzo. But in a battle...

After three decades, Suffolk's smorgasbord of land preservation programs have delivered 34,000 acres into the public domain, but they've come at an eye-popping price tag of $3.5 billion. Or so says Martin Cantor, head of Dowling College's Long Island...

Citing the dramatic decline of hard clams in the Great South Bay and persistent water quality problems there, Gov. David A. Paterson asked the federal Commerce Department to declare a commercial fishery failure. That determination would open the spigot...

Nearly half of Long Island's municipal recycling programs -- including those run by North Hempstead, Smithtown and Glen Cove -- got either Ds or Fs in a report card released Monday by a local environmental advocacy group. Citizens Campaign for the...

Building right library soul Being one of the many directors of the Elmont Public Library who could not cure the dysfunction of its management, I am living proof that residents of Nassau County, or anywhere for that matter, should not want the Elmont...

The expansion of a parking lot at Bay Shore High School has been delayed while state officials conduct soil tests after a group of retired Islip town employees came forward, saying the town had buried tar and fuel tanks there decades ago. The whistle-...

A consultant to the Long Island Power Authority has told the utility that the Broadwater liquid natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound can be built and operated with minimal environmental impact and minimal security concerns. An "executive...

Some local environmentalists have accused Shell Oil of trying to buy local support for a liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound. The Shell Marine Habitat Program donated $130,500 to a federally controlled conservation fund whose...

The Coast Guard has concluded that the giant liquid natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound poses safety and security risks that would require added law enforcement and firefighting capability as well as escort boats to help prevent...

Hundreds of people crowded into a West Babylon high school auditorium last night to argue the merits of building wind turbines off Long Island's South Shore. "This is the biggest boondoggle I have yet seen," William T. Lauder, 84, of Amityville, who...