People who spend summers fishing and canoeing on the Middle Fork Vermilion River should be pleased to know its water quality should be improving in the coming years. The State of Illinois reached a cleanup agreement last month with a company accused of polluting the state s only national scenic river. The settlement requires Dynegy Midwest Generation to clean up toxic coal ash it dumped near the Middle Fork for nearly 60 years. .
The New York state Legislature has passed the Tropical Deforestation-Free Procurement Act, which aims to hold companies contracting with the state accountable for deforestation their products might create. It could range from how it is cultivated to the company s supply chain. An Accountability Framework Initiative/CDP report found more than 200 companies surveyed identified almost $80 billion of forest related risks. .
For the second consecutive year, District 10 NYS Senator James Sanders Jr. gave a speech on climate change while standing in the Atlantic Ocean on Earth Day as a part of the “Tuvalu Challenge.” The new tradition is inspired by Simon Kofe, a foreign minister from Tuvalu who recorded a speech for the United Nations