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StuffNThings / Creative Commons The Suffolk County Water Authority is teaming up with the Suffolk County District Attorney Tim Sini to monitor groundwater and investigate where pollution is coming from. Sini said they could use that information to eventually prosecute polluters of the region’s water supply. “The long term goal is to ensure that we leave our future generations what was left to us: the ability to turn on the faucet and drink that water with peace of mind,” Sini said, calling it a “the first-of-its-kind partnership.” Sini said the first short-term goal is to ident...

Email Long Island’s two county police departments are among a small minority of America’s largest local law-enforcement agencies that have spurned broad use of body-worn cameras, even as deadly encounters between officers and unarmed Black people increased calls for greater police transparency and accountability. A Newsday survey of the nation’s 50 largest law-enforcement agencies found just three that had not equipped large numbers of officers with body cameras before 2020: The Nassau and Suffolk police departments and the Portland Police Bureau, in Oregon. Deployment of body cameras ...

SCWA requests federal funding to connect Manorville area homes to public water, but Town says not so fast Town officials took exception to the Suffolk County Water Authority’s characterization of the Riverhead Town Water District as it pushes a plan to connect homes in the Manorville and Calverton areas to public water. The Suffolk County Water Authority says it is “ready, willing and able” to bring safe and constantly tested public water to 128 homes in the Calverton and Manorville communities whose private wells are threatened by PFAS contaminati...

 E-Mail A team of researchers, using satellite data and other analytical tools, has identified companies fishing in high seas--waters that lie outside of national jurisdiction where fishing has raised fears about environmental and labor violations. The study, which appears in the journal One Earth, is the first to link companies to fishing activity in these largely unregulated areas. "There is a lot of concern about companies that operate on the high seas, simply because there they are beyond the reach of any nation's laws and regulations," says Jennifer Jacquet, an associate professor in N...

In the meantime, in May last year, the couple were told their property was liable for commercial rates. They say it should be exempt as it is mainly their family home for them and their two children. Earlier this year, in a separate case against them by a Dublin City Council rate collector, the High Court found the couple were liable for a rates bill of €75,000 for 2013-17, despite their contention the property was not rateable. The couple had separately brought judicial review proceedings seeking to quash the decision to revoke a previous decision making the premises exempt. It was claimed...