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Reporting language in the recently approved federal omnibus funding package expresses support for the permanent conservation of Plum Island.

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The decades-long effort to turn a tiny island at the eastern approach to Long Island Sound into a nature sanctuary has gotten a big boost from the recently enacted federal budget, which orders the gov...

After years of fighting to block development of Plum Island, conservationists on both sides of the Sound have succeeded in including language in the 2023 omnibus spending bill that supports “the permanent conservation of Plum Island for the protection in perpetuity of its natural and cultural resources” and calls on a variety of federal agencies to brief congress on how to do it.

Supporters of an effort to designate a national monument on Plum Island in Long Island...