by Marshall Brown | May 17, 2014 | Cleaner Water
Part III of the Huffington Post series, Can Long Island Be Saved? Here, we interview Carl LoBue, senior marine scientist of The Nature Conservancy.
by Marshall Brown | May 7, 2014 | Cleaner Water
Here is Part I of a projected three month series on the question, Can Long Island Be Saved? This series, written for The Huffington Post, will focus primarily on water quality issues. What is happening to our drinking water? What is happening to our bays, rivers and...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 23, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
This is huge news. All oars are in the water now. The Governor, The NYS DEC, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone, and of course all the LI eco-nonprofits in The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, led by The Citizen’s...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 16, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
What follows is a roster of the 100+ organizations in The Long Island Clean Water Partnership, with websites for them embedded where available. The four charter organizations are listed first, then it proceeds alphabetically. The mission of the partnership is to build...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 9, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
Released January 24th, 2014, this report is thorough, comprehensive, and alarming. Â The 350,000 septic tanks in Suffolk County are killing all our ponds, rivers, and bays. Lawn fertilizers, pesticides, toxic plumes, volatile household chemicals and improperly disposed...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 28, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
On Long Island, science is trumping politics. People from across the political spectrum have embraced the fact that Long Island urgently needs a plan to fix its waste water problems. The science is speaking for itself – 500,000 septic tanks, 360,000 in Suffolk.  The...
