Environmental Activism Press Coverage

BINGHAMTON - Some are calling it a preventable tragedy.

On Monday, a tractor trailer carrying compressed natural gas flipped over on Interstate 88. Walter Hang, the president of Toxics Targeting wants Governor Cuomo to ban any trucks, or facilities in our state all together.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Environmentalists are renewing efforts today to put a halt on the approval of natural gas transfer facilities after the fatal compressed natural gas truck accident in Fenton.

BINGHAMTON, NY -
Toxics Targeting, Inc. is launching a campaign to ban all types of High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing (HVHF) in New York State, including gelled propane fracking that could come to Barton, NY.

Lead shot found at Ithaca Falls in 2015.

Test results from soil samples collected by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in August 2017, but not publicly disclosed until last week, confirm what investigators found in February 2018 – lead levels on the Ithaca Falls Gorge Trail exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) removal management level at 400 parts per million (PPM).

“Neither DEC nor EPA alerted the public to this documented public health threat. That is why I did,” said environmental advocate Walter Hang.

Governor Cuomo plans to develop an action plan by this Spring to reduce sources of pollution that spark the algal blooms that closed portions of Cayuga Lake to swimming last summer, even threatening the popular Women Swimmin fundraiser for Hospicare. But not everyone thinks the state’s ambitious timeframe, nor its relatively paltry financial contributions, are realistic in addressing the root of the problem.