by Marshall Brown | Apr 26, 2016 | Advocacy
On Monday, Suffolk County announced what would be the most significant environmental action since collectively the passage of The Pine Barrens Protection Act over 2o years ago.  That piece of legislation, crafted over the course of an epic legal battle over six...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 24, 2016 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water
In today’s Newsday, it was announced that there will be a referendum on November’s ballot for a surcharge on water use on Long Island. Â This surcharge of $1.00 for every 1000 gallons of water would generate $75 million a year in revenue. Â These funds...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 20, 2015 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay has just launched a Kickstarter Campaign to raise money for a web-based crowdsourced environmental map of Long Island. Here is a list of the sorts of things this map will allow us to do: 1. Nature photographers will be able to post their...
by Marshall Brown | Oct 5, 2014 | Cleaner Water
This notice was sent to me last night by Group for the East End. It’s depressing that once more The County Legislature is trying to pull a fast one on us by raiding funds earmarked for environmental purposes, but here we are. Back in November of 2013, The...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 3, 2014
Suffolk County is holding a video contest called crapSHOOT. It’s aim is to build public awareness about water quality issues on Long Island. In brief, the root issue is that there are 500,000 septic tanks and cesspools on Long Island.   This enormous problem...
