environmental issues

SMETHPORT, Pa. — State Department of Environmental Protection records have documented approximately 30,000 orphan or abandoned wells in Pennsylvania. ...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials toured several orphaned and abandoned energy well sites with federal officials in We...

WEST VALLEY — Members of the West Valley Citizen Task Force recently visited the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) to observe cleanup progress ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are probably aware of the massive push to transition to green energy. The goal is to have wind and solar r...

ALFRED — A local university is working on a way to use old glass to help build sea walls. Alfred University, in partnership with the New York State De...

BELMONT — Allegany County will host its 23rd annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Sept. 7. Since 2010, the Allegany County Solid Waste D...

I am against the logging project in Zoar Valley planned by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation based on a Connecticut Audubon plan...

OLEAN — Engineering firms are being formally sought to help the city avoid future wastewater discharges into public waterways. A request for proposals...

OLEAN — After a month of planning — and another wastewater discharge into the Allegheny River — city officials plan to commission a study on how to fi...

WEST VALLEY — The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recertified the West Valley Demonstration Project’s Environmental Managemen...

You’ve heard it and read it time and again over the past several years since the enactment of New York’s far-reaching climate agenda known as the “Cli...

OLEAN — The Seneca Nation of Indians moved a step closer to suing the city of Olean over wastewater discharges into the Allegheny River. On Tuesday, t...

BATH — Composting is one of the effective, practical ways to dispose of animal carcasses on the farm in New York state. It results in the destruction ...

The Seneca Nation of Indians has been allocated more than $1.42 million from New York state to connect two important trails on the Allegany Territory ...

OLEAN — A local business will expand in North Olean after getting the go-ahead from the city planning board. The city planning board unanimously appro...

WELLSVILLE — Thirty-five years ago Allegany County was facing a threat that could have dramatically altered its future when a group of people banded t...

OLEAN — The Seneca Nation of Indians has again threatened to take legal action against the city of Olean over wastewater discharges. Seneca Nation Pre...

OLEAN — The Allegheny River has been an important resource and giver of life for the Seneca people for centuries — their name for it, “Ohi:yo’,” means...