Ghost panel misses first statutory deadline
A mandated panel to study road salt contamination in the Adirondack Park still has not been formed.
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Road salt task force still without members
The state’s road salt task force has a detailed report due to lawmakers on Dec. 1, except there’s a problem—the task force doesn’t exist.
State scales back on salt study
By Ry Rivard
State lawmakers are apparently bowing to concerns that the study could expose the state to liability from residents with unsafe water.
Judge penalizes state for salt pollution
By Ry Rivard
Nine years after they sued the state in the court of claims, a judge sided with the Fredericks and found the Thruway Authority owes the farmers $91,000 for the damage its road salt caused.
2020 EXPLORED: Road salt
By Ry Rivard
Researchers, regulators and residents have worried, complained, studied and suffered for years — yet the state has done little to get its arms around the problem of road salt contamination. Until this year.
Curbing New York’s 40-year road salt addiction
By Ry Rivard
By 2015, the Fund for Lake George, a nonprofit watchdog for the lake that anchors one of the country’s desirable lakefront property markets, said salt was “the acid rain of our time.” Now, years later, the state may get serious about the problem.
Proponents celebrate signing of road salt bill
By Mike Lynch
Proponents of a Road Salt bill signed into law earlier this week showed up Saranac Lake Friday to tout the bill and honor the man they named it for: the late Randy Preston, a longtime Wilmington town supervisor.
Cuomo backs salt study
By Ry Rivard
The governor signed a law aimed at reining in the 300 million pounds of salt dumped each year in the Adirondack Park to clear roads for fast-moving vehicles.
Talking Adirondack road salt
A talk about New York State's use of road salt in the Adirondack Park.
Salt study stalled
By Ry Rivard
This summer, New York lawmakers approved the bill to require the state to look at ways to cut the pollution caused by salt dumped each winter on state roads. The bill remains unsigned.