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EPA

Environment

Lake monitoring program in peril

By Zachary Matson

January 22, 2024

Adirondack Watershed Institute, partners explore support options as EPA cuts funding

Environment

Schumer, scientists want EPA to reopen air-quality stations

By Gwendolyn Craig

June 17, 2022

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and area scientists call on EPA to reopen air-quality monitoring stations.

Communities

EPA suspends some air-quality monitoring in Adirondacks

By Gwendolyn Craig

May 19, 2022

Adirondack groups push back against the decision

General

Hey, that’s my uncle!

By Explorer archives

August 1, 2017

The photo with “Why I Miss Richard Nixon” shows my uncle Russell Train, who went on to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Nixon gave him wide authority in the early 1970s to usher in such landmark legislation as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Superfund, the…