Long Island Sound

The federal lawsuit filed yesterday seeks to set aside the EPA's decision designating a permanent open water dumping site within 2.3 miles of Fishers Island in the Town of Southold.

Regional transportation planners may have shelved the idea of rerouting 3,000 tractor-trailers from I-95 to the North Fork but they are still looking at ways to ship freight across Long Island Sound to relieve highway congestion in New York City.

A companion bill has been introduced in the Senate by the New York and Connecticut Senate delegations. The measures would maintain funding for protection and restoration of the L.I. Sound of $65 million per year through 2020.

NOAA is warning boaters to be on the lookout for humpback whales in the Long Island Sound. Collisions can be dangerous to boaters and whales alike. The giant marine mammal can be 60 feet long and weigh 40 tons. It is federally protected and injuring, interacting with or harassing it is punishable by stiff fines.

From rising sea levels to declining cold-water fish populations, global effects of climate change are playing out right here at home.

The dumping of dredged materials in the Long Island Sound will continue for the next 30 years under a controversial plan approved yesterday over the protests of local officials and environmental activists.

United Riverhead Terminal began storing the exceptionally volatile Bakken crude oil produced by fracking in North Dakota in 2014. RiverheadLOCAL exclusive report.