environmental protection

WEST VALLEY — The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), its cleanup contractor at the West V...

(Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Rochester Institute of Technology and The Associated Press.) HONEOYE (AP) — On a rainy March eve...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is calling on community groups, municipalities, schools and individuals to celebrate Arbor...

OLEAN — The Olean Meditation Center will host a World Earth Day Celebration: Think Globally, Act Locally from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 26 at 227...

YORKSHIRE — Cornell Cooperative Extension Allegany County will host the 32nd Annual Rural Landowner Workshop on March 1. The program will begin at 9 a...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The invasive emerald ash borer was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wo...

With a new administration preparing for a new direction in Washington, D.C., it is important that the residents of Central New York, the Mohawk Valley...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing changes to the so-called Forest Tax Law to lessen administrative burdens on participat...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is seeking public input on the draft list of “species of greatest conservation need” and a...

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is accepting photos for two annual fall foliage photo contests. The two contests are a way for N...

DELEVAN — A former ski area in Cattaraugus County is officially the newest state forest. The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Monday ...

The state is seeking participants in a new survey to help better understand typical rock salt use by New Yorkers and public awareness regarding the po...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has reopened the Valentine Flats parking area and associated trails at Zoar Valley Multipl...

GOWANDA — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced the temporary closure of the Valentine Flats parking area ...

The Allegheny National Forest Chapter of the North Country Trail Association has long aimed to build Adirondack-style shelters spaced about 10 miles a...

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...

CASTILE — New York state environmental conservation officers responded to a call July 20 from a state Park Ranger about an injured timber rattlesnake ...

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