ecology

LITTLE VALLEY — After more than 30 years the state Department of Environmental Conservation has declared groundwater contamination between Little Vall...

BRADFORD, Pa. — For people in the proposed flight path of the low-flying training zone for the Maryland Air National Guard over the Pennsylvania Wilds...

OLEAN — Additional work is being ordered at the former AVX Corp. site on Seneca Avenue, included in the Olean Wellfield Superfund cleanup, by the U.S....

BELMONT — Allegany County is soliciting bids for timbering on the Bennett Lot, also known as Rattlesnake Hill, located in the Town of Grove. The Benne...

PORTVILLE — Portville has created a sustainability committee after earlier this year declaring itself a Climate Smart Community. Bob Fisher, a longtim...

ALBANY (TNS) — Starting in 2025, concrete suppliers to New York will have to provide accountings of how much carbon is being used in making their prod...

New York has some of the most ambitious green energy goals you’re going to see anywhere. The state wants to generate 70% of its electricity via renewa...

GOWANDA — Construction of the new handicapped accessible Valentine Flats Trail at the Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area in the town of Persia has been del...

As Hurricane Idalia barreled into Northwest Florida, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new clean-water regulation that will worsen ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — You know it was a remarkable week when dumping tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean wasn’t even the lead story. That’s...

WELLSVILLE — A tour Wednesday of a Southern Tier factory served as a backdrop to a push for more aid for area job training programs. Senate Majority L...

ALBANY (TNS) — Electricity prices could rise 64% in order to cover inflation and the higher-than-anticipated costs that are becoming apparent in New Y...

Marisa Riggi has been named executive director of the Western New York Land Conservancy. Riggi has been the Land Conservancy’s conservation director s...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I’m sure green hysterics will get it right someday. New York City back in 2021 passed a law that banned restaurants and bars from giv...

SEATTLE — In 2016, hospitals in New York state identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. Research labo...

ALBANY — Computer chip manufacturer Micron has revealed that by the 2040s its Onondaga County factories are going to be sucking up enough electricity ...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — Students from Otto-Eldred’s Future Farmers of America were invited by U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., to attend the Annual Agricul...

IRVING — Several state, local and federal representatives spoke out over the weekend on what they called the negative environmental and economic impac...