Rockland Unites to Clean Up Community

Rockland Unites to Clean Up Community

  By: Sean King On April 17, Keep Rockland Beautiful held town cleanups in Piermont, Nanuet, and Spring Valley, as a part of The Great American Cleanup’s Earth Day celebrations. Piermont annually rallies its residents to get involved with the village’s efforts to reduce the pollution that is detrimental to local bird and fish populations […]

CARLUCCI’S COLUMN: PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT

CARLUCCI’S COLUMN: PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT

BY SENATOR DAVID CARLUCCI Our environment must be protected for future generations, and currently our federal government is rolling back policies that protect us against climate change and global warming. First, the President pulled the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change mitigation. Further, cuts are being made left and right to funding for the Environmental Protection […]

Carlucci’s Column: New City Cleanup

Carlucci’s Column: New City Cleanup

Caring for our environment will leave it cleaner for future generations. We must keep Rockland free of litter and trash that can hurt our wildlife and pollute our waterways. To help, I annually host a New City Cleanup along Route 304 in Congers. It allows us to give back, while improving our community. We are still looking for […]

The Green Future

The Green Future

BY DREW JOHNSON (Republished with permission) Environmental activists regularly scare Americans about our domestic energy resources — and urge us to abandon development of them. Witness the various efforts to stop hydraulic fracturing, offshore and onshore drilling, and the like. What life would look like in this new green world, though, rarely gets coverage. Considering […]