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Something stinks in the nabe of Greenpoint. Greenpoint resident Ian Oberholtzer wakes up every weekday morning to an aromatic alarm: the “acrid stench of burning tires.” The New York State Department ...

Alexandria and Granville communities are concerned about the risk to their health and water resources from two proposed hot-mix asphalt plants in St. Albans Township adjacent to Raccoon Creek at each ...

After nearly a decade of permitting, appeals, moratoriums, protests and lawsuits, local environmentalists and industry have come to an agreement that will halt a long-planned asphalt plant that was to ...