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NY Energy Plan Delay ‘Unacceptable’ – Manna Jo Greene
The New York State Energy Plan was to be introduced to the public at a Monday hearing in Albany. The public showed up, but the meeting had been postponed. Here is Clearwater's Environmental Action Director [...]
Clearwater’s Peter Gross: Can’t Wait to See You at Festival!
Peter A Gross Come join us at the Great Hudson River Revival Festival at Croton Point Park this weekend! As Clearwater’s executive director, I’d love to see and talk with you there. Remember [...]
Build-a-Song Anthem Debuts at Revival!
Clearwater’s new Build-a-Song anthem, “Don’t Walk Away,” will have its debut performances at the Great Hudson River Revival, June 20-21 in Croton Park. Our Power of Song Apprentices will perform the new song three times this [...]
New Blog: ‘Teaching on the River’
Check out our new Clearwater online logbook, offering the insights of our educators and crew as they sail this summer. To visit the blog, go to https://hudsonriversloopclearwater.wordpress.com/ or click on "Education" in the green banner on our home [...]
Clearwater Partners with 1% for the Planet
BEACON, NY, May 4, 2015 – Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is a new nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of over 1,200 member companies in 41 countries that give one percent [...]
Hudson River Advocates Take Anti-PCB Fight to Albany
ALBANY, NY - Public health advocates joined Hudson River fishers, boaters and municipal officials to urge GE to address its outstanding obligations — beyond the current EPA-mandated project — to do much more to clean up the [...]
Aaron Mair, Environmental Justice Advocate, Heads Sierra Club
Aaron Mair, the newly elected – and first African-American - president of the national Sierra Club calls himself an “angler from Peekskill,” who first became involved with environmental issues because he learned that eating fish [...]
New Clearwater Program Combats Invasive Species
BEACON, NY - Clearwater has launched an Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Program to help raise awareness about harmful non-native species and get people involved in preventing their spread. The AIS Program is funded by the Lower [...]
Indian Point Fire Sparks New Calls for Closure
BUCHANAN, NY - The transformer explosion and fire at the 40-year-old Indian Point Nuclear plant on Friday, May 9, appears to have resulted in an oil spill, as photographs taken over the weekend show a [...]