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A waste gasification plant proposed for Stony Point has sparked interest, doubt, and fear of odors, pollution and hellishly clogged roads. The plant will receive 4800 tons of MSW daily—the equivalent of a fully loaded Boeing 747 pulling up behind the Stony Point ShopRite every day. Up to 400 diesel

New Planet Energy proposes for the Stony Point project a Steam Reforming Gasification Process of garbage to produce a "clean" sulfur-free diesel fuel. The process and by products of production are however not "clean" and risk exposing the nearby school, residential neighborhoods, a supermarket, the

Who’s looking out for the environment and making sure that nearby residents are protected from noxious odors and harmful emissions?

New Planet Energy is proposing to build a $700 million recycling plant on Holt Drive that will convert the regions municipal garbage into fuel.

BY KATHY KAHN New Planet Energy representatives will attend the Stony Point Town Board meeting on Tuesday, June 27, at7 p.m.to gather public feedback on the trash-to-gas plant they are building in town. New Planet is building a renewable fuel and bio-tech

“This is an inappropriate use in a residential area,” Phillips said. “The traffic will be horrendous. ... We don’t want somebody experimenting in north Rockland with a product that can be very detrimental.” Phillips contends New Planet Energy was using the region as a “guinea pig” to test “unproven

Residents packed town hall in West Haverstraw to learn about a plan to build a facility that recycles New York City trash. Haverstraw officials are also worried about the plan and say it will pollute the environment and add traffic to the already congested Route 9W.

BY KATHY KAHN Approximately 150 persons gathered Tuesday night at the West Haverstraw Community Center for a discussion about a proposed plant in neighboring Stony Point, which would convert New York City trash to natural gas. Greg Julian, chairman of the

An experiment conducted deep underground in an old South Dakota gold mine has given scientists hope that a future detector could help solve one of physics' biggest puzzles: why the universe exists at all. Put another way, the puzzle has to do with the

Windows 7 and Windows 8 users will notice the greatest decrease in system performance after the processor patches are applied.

The leading distributor of open source server and cloud operating systems says all its major infrastructure products are affected by Meltdown and Spectre. Solution providers are expecting some systems to be degraded by up to 30 percent...

After several days of dodging questions about the performance impact of patches designed to fix the Meltdown/Spectre chip design flaws, Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday morning that Windows Server is now slower for certain types of applications thanks to th

The FCC's plans regarding net neutrality, set to be revealed in detail on Nov. 22, aren't going to end net neutrality. What the FCC is planning to do is reverse the 2014 decision that placed the internet under Title II of the Communications Act. What’s going to happen if the order is adopted is

HBO has acquired Gunpowder, BBCs three-part thriller drama toplined by Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington. The miniseries, based on the real-life 17th century events that led to Guy Fawkes Day, will debut on HBO on Monday, Dec. 18, and will air over three consecutive nights.

It's a question New Yorkers are asked every 20 years, and it could reshape the future of the state.

Authorities found a note, written in English, claiming the suspect in Tuesday's attack in New York did it in the name of ISIS, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.

A gunman emerged from a crashed Home Depot truck and opened fire after apparently plowing down four riders Tuesday afternoon on a Lower Manhattan bike path, eyewitnesses said.

At least two people were killed near Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon in a wild incident that involved a shooting and a car ramming into victims on the West Side bike

NEW YORK (AP) Police are responding to a report of gunfire a few blocks from the World Trade Center site and memorial, and witnesses say a vehicle drove down a popular bike path and struck pedestrians and cyclists.