08.04.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Destroying 400 million years of L.I. life “We are destroying this incredible living fossil, chopping it up for bait,” New York State Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick (D-NYC) told me in an interview last week. Ms. Glick...
03.11.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: County getting serious about water Environmentalist John Turner calls them “13 magic words.” They are 13 words that have been added to a measure likely to be voted on in a countywide referendum in...
07.20.2020 News Bellone at odds with environmentalists over measure to plug budget gap Environmental groups in Suffolk County are critical of County Executive Steve Bellone’s proposal to ask voters in November whether to use money set aside for environmental protection programs to...
11.25.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Long Island water 101 Suffolk County government has, at long last, embraced the “advanced” wastewater treatment systems that remove substantial amounts of nitrogen that leach from traditional cesspools.