Rensselaer Environmental Coalition

We are fighting a Goliath and we need your help! We are the Rensselaer Environmental Coalition.

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july 15 radio interview regarding air testing in and around the Dunn Landfill. https://t.co/M5UmItpPau

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History of Dunn Landfill permit before DEC Xmas eve eve ‘24 3 year permit decision. In that decision truck trips start at 8:30 not 6:30, 70 trucks instead of 100, $150,000 to community(where is it?), useless study on Partition Street high black carbon. https://t.co/zmsQY6NrSH

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A review of the Dunn Landfill by a neighbor. If you feel compromised by this operation speak up like this lady. It will make a difference.

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Wind from landfill to school. The purple air monitor map shows higher AQI readings at the school (circled) than other nearby locations. Hey NYSDOH, what’s in that air?

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A little more detail on our request to the Common Council.

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This is the map referred to in the previous post.

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REC requests Common Council adopt a resolution requesting NYS DOH conduc... https://t.co/MnSeDc8G2U via @YouTube

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https://t.co/eXrxU5RfhQ It appears that Waste Connections, the multi billion dollar corporate owner of Seneca Meadows as well as the Dunn Landfill is able to use its connection to the State so the people are the last consideration.

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Waste Connections' Dunn Dump - April 2025 - #1 https://t.co/695iHlGhDx via @YouTube

See how close the Dunn Landfill is to Holy Sepulcher cemetery.

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When you look at the video concerning Governors Square and the Dunn Landfill see the closest spot to the Landfill is Holy Sepulcher cemetery. No reverence shown with this landfills approval.

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Dump and Governor's Square https://t.co/V3SPy4rYO5 via @YouTube
1000 feet from landfill & prevailing wind from landfill 11 months of the year. East Greenbush Board 6/17 at 6.

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This is 2017 but much of it is relevant today. The landfill opened in January 2015. The ar ch diocese of Albany owns the cemetery
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Leachate from landfills is contaminated with PFAS chemicals at hundreds of times the state's drinking water limit https://t.co/dqlwxw10Hw

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Health and Landfills https://t.co/8Zkv1nVTEW

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The Rensselaer County Legislature and the County Executive have requested James McDonald, State Health Commissioner to conduct detailed testing and evaluation to determine the risks the Dunn Landfill operations are bringing to their resident’s lives. https://t.co/9CeKfjdfDM