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 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...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 18, 2013 | Education
Post by SCERP Stony Brook Southampton Coastal and Estuarine Research Program.