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Technology and digital innovations have had a positive impact on our environment - we have the internet to thank for a large reduction of paper and waste. But these innovations can also have negative impacts that we should be aware of.

Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) found that toxic chemicals in drinking water can be harmful at much lower levels than the EPA previously reported as safe. Newly disclosed e-mails between members of the EPA revealed that the agency tried to keep this information hidden to avoid conflict with the public and a negative reaction from the media.

Recently, the New York Appellate Court issued a decision that will preserve protected farmland in Suffolk County for generations to come. To understand why this decision is a victory for the environment, we first have to travel to pre-suburbanized Long Island, the 1970s, and the long ago year of 2016.

Elected officials and advocates are joining together to fight back against the federal government's plan to open up the Atlantic Coast for offshore drilling.

Last week, Governor Cuomo vetoed a bill that would have expanded Long Island’s Pine Barrens preserve. The expansion onto private lands was hastily proposed at the end of the legislative session last year and would have included plots where major solar farms were set to be constructed in Bethel and Shoreham.

The Regional Plan Association (RPA) published their Fourth Regional Plan on November 30th, 21 years after the previous one was