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A Yonkers demolition contractor has agreed to pay $60,000 to Riverkeeper Inc. and to discharge cleaner stormwater into the Saw Mill River, to settle a federal Clean Water Act lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel endorsed the deal between Riverkeeper and Capital Industries Corp. and CEO George McGuire on Nov. 21.
A federal judge has approved settlements between Riverkeeper Inc. and three Yonkers businesses that the environmental organization accused of discharging polluted stormwater into the Saw Mill River.
On June 16, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or Service), which licenses and regulates fisheries...
The Schoolhouse Rock classic “Three Ring Government” teaches children about the separation of powers embodied in the Constitution by comparing the three branches of government to a three-ring circus. The song explains that “no one part [of government] can be more powerful than any other.” The President is the “ringmaster of the government,” Congress is tasked with “passing laws and juggling bills,” and the courts “take the law and they tame the crimes … balancing the wrongs with your rights.”[1]
Whether in the form of historic droughts, blistering wildfires, record-setting hurricanes, extreme heat or catastrophic flooding, it’s clear that natural