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NEW YORK STATE FAILS TO MONITOR WATER POLLUTION PERMITS, ENDANGERS HEALTH OF STATE'S WATERS
(ALBANY, NY) - Environmental Advocates of New York released a new report today detailing serious flaws in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) oversight of hundreds of water pollution sources across the state. The report, Permission to Pollute, documents how the state’s primary environmental agency is rubber-stamping water pollution permits without substantive review, as required every five years under the federal Clean Water Act. Environmental Advocates’ investigation also uncovered that the public is being denied its right to scrutinize hundreds of permits issued by the DEC that authorize the discharge of billions of gallons of sewage and industrial pollution every day. Click here for more information.  Click here to download the report.
 

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