Commissioner Sean Mahar emphasized New York’s commitment to ensuring clean drinking water for generations, stating, “The launch of the 2025 Drinking Water Source Protection Program application period offers municipalities with a public water supply the opportunity to proactively protect their sources of drinking water.

New York environmental conservation police officers and forest rangers used a chainsaw to cut through ice to save a freezing moose that had fallen through the ice on Lake

A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a laborious cold-water rescue. The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday,

The author states "In 2024, New York State enacted several laws aimed either at dealing with the adverse impacts of climate change such as extreme heat and increasingly severe and frequent storms or at helping to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to avoid or minimize the adverse impacts.

The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday, about 200 feet (60 meters) from shore on Lake Abanakee, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced in a statement ...

Forest rangers and conservation police in New York came to the rescue of a moose that wandered out onto a frozen lake and fell through the ice into the frigid water.

Police called in the help of trained DEC staff to get the moose out of the water. DEC Rangers Evan Nahor and Matt Savarie used jet sleds to keep themselves from falling through the ice as they cut a passage through the ice from where the moose fell into the water to the shore.

"DEC has announced updated regulations to protect an additional one million acres of freshwater wetlands across the state", began a recent post from the NYS DEC (below). After explaining the benefits of healthy wetlands, they shared how New Yorkers could be part of future protection decisions.

The Greenidge cryptocurrency mining facility on Seneca Lake continues to operate despite receiving multiple air permit denials from New York State regulators.

On Friday, January 3, Forest Rangers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) got word of a fire happening at a Greenhouse in Putnam County.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the Colonel William F. Fox Memorial Saratoga Tree Nursery’s annual spring seedling sale is now open and will run

Brood XIV will start to emerge in northern Georgia around the middle or end of April in areas where soil temperatures are about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, Kritsky said. In states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, they’ll likely emerge around the second week of May. They’ll likely stay until the end of June.