Nassau News

By Amanda Brody
Nassau News Staff Writer

Levittown, the nation’s first suburb, will now become the nation’s first green suburb. A few months ago, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi announced his plan for a Green Levittown and partnered up with businesses in the area to provide green alternatives to energy, appliances and home improvements. P.C. Richards and Sons offers discounts on Energy Star appliances and the Bethpage Federal Credit Union offers loans to help people make their homes more environmentally friendly. Yet, going green will cost residents money and with a trying economy at stake, it is hard to ask residents to spend money to help the environment, when they can’t even afford to fill up their car’s gas tank.

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By Julia Gardiner
Nassau News Staff Writer

Environmental sustainability has recently garnered a great deal of media attention -- from movies about global warming to magazine articles and celebrities promoting "going green." However, the degree to which the prominent media attention on the issue affects its importance locally seems to be minimal.

In the Town of Hempstead, where there are 32 miles of waterfront and the largest tract of open space left on Long Island, it is particularly important for residents to be aware of the environmental ramifications of their actions. Initiatives to make the town more environmentally friendly have been the object of debate for more than 30 years.

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By Andrzej Sienko
Nassau News Staff Writer

Few people would think of garbage trucks as ecological or cutting edge. At best, they are a nuisance, with the whine of hydraulics and crashing metal in the morning. At worst they embody the waste we produce.

Now that perception may change, at least in the Town of Hempstead, where the sanitation department prepares to switch its fleet to hybrid plug-in technology.

“This offers a tremendous advantage. It’s the first of its kind,” Assistant City Commissioner Dominick Longobardi said in an interview.

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By Karmin Jones
Staff Writer


Starting this summer, the village of Hempstead will finally get some relief by KeySpan and the EPA to rid the ground of contaminants.

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By Michelle Sobhraj
Staff Writer

Remediation of the Fulton Avenue Superfund site may begin in two years, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- almost 10 years after the agency first placed the Garden City Park site on its national priorities list, and 33 years after the site was abandoned.

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