The legendary Public Broadcasting System (PBS) channel, Thirteen/WNET has just re-launched a newly re-designed website. In honor of the launch coinciding with Earth Day, the website producers have jammed the site with incredible green content from recent programming and other stories spanning many years.

One of the featured stories/videos on the site is the New York Voices piece on the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Disaster that GBK originally covered back when it first aired.

Thanks for visiting! Subscribe to the RSS feed, receive posts via email, or find other ways to subscribe in the ‘Subscribe’ box to the left. Thanks again and see ya soon.National Public Radio’s famed program All Things Considered discusses the Newtown Creek oil disaster and the intricacies of cleaning up the decades-old mess. Nancy Solomon […]

The EPA has finally produced its thorough study (pdf) of the Newtown Creek oil disaster that has contaminated the creek — that forms the natural barrier between Brooklyn and Queens — for the last half-century.
While there is some disagreement as to the health and environmental damage caused by the spill, the new report […]

Your NYS tax dollars hard at work:
At the direction of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Exxon-Mobil recently restarted its oil recovery and groundwater remediation system at a massive oil spill site in the Greenpoint community of Brooklyn. Restarting the recovery system is an important step in removing oil contamination from the […]

Newtown Creek Alliance Meeting
Wednesday, July 25
6:30pm
There will be a meeting of the Newtown Creek Alliance on Wednesday, July 25th at 6:30 pm, held at the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. Talking about some pretty important organizational issues and will develop an agenda to pursue over the next year, so it will be a pretty […]