Citizens Campaign for the Environment Executive Director Adrienne Esposito discusses concerns related to  per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Environmental groups and state lawmakers are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign legislation that would lower New York’s allowable PFAS levels in drinking water from 10 parts per trillion to 4 parts per trillion.

A bill aimed at strengthening drinking water protections in New York is now awaiting action from Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and local officials are calling on the U.S. Navy to expedite cleanup efforts at a former development site and of  a toxic groundwater plume that is inching toward the Peconic Bay.

Schumer appeared in Calverton Thursday to call on the U.S. Navy to resume testing of the plume at Enterprise Park after the Navy pushed back a deadline 10 years to 2039, to conclude its assessment and come up with a plan to clean up contaminants from the former Grumman weapons plant. 

A Manhattan law firm, with an East End connection, is planning PFAS litigation

“We represent over 2,000 individuals from Nassau and Suffolk counties who have developed four types of cancer — liver, kidney, thyroid and testicular cancers — and also ulcerative colitis, in litigation involving PFAS,” said Jeffrey Guzman, a founding member of a law firm based on Wall Street in Manhattan, Krentsel Guzman Herbert.

The Environmental Protection Agency has named Nicole “Nikki” Tachiki as the new director of the Long Island Sound Partnership, placing a longtime agency scientist and program planner at the helm of a regional effort focused on improving the health of the Long Island Sound and the communities that surround it.

A federal judge struck down New York’s plan to force fossil fuel companies to pay it $75 billion to offset climate change impacts they caused.

An upstate federal judge ruled that a New York law that would have forced major fossil fuel companies to foot the bill for infrastructure upgrades necessary to withstand the impacts of climate change is unconstitutional, saying the state overstepped its authority by passing it. 

A life scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency is the new leader of an interagency program created to improve the health of Long Island Sound.

Nicole Tachiki, named acting director of the EPA's Long Island Sound office in 2025, is now in charge of Long Island Sound Partnership, which began in 1985 as the Long Island Sound Study — an EPA-run effort in collaboration with New York and Connecticut aimed at cleaning up the Sound.

At the head of the Nissequogue River in Head of the River, a home nestled within rolling green pastures that was once a grist mill dating back to the 1700s still stands. But the family that has served as its steward for four generations is seeking to pass it on to preserve it.

As she sat with other family members in the wood shingle-covered home on Mill Dam Road, Molly Micciche said she could tell the exact times when the low and high tide for the Nissequogue River occurred. Micciche, 81, is one of the four children of Herbert G. Luther, who converted the centuries-old mill into a home in the 1950s.