The Brushcat initially will be used at Deer Creek Marsh Wildlife Management Area (WMA) to treat invasive plant species, such as honeysuckle, Japanese barberry and European buckthorn.
Novelis Corporation will pay $220,000 to settle natural resource damages claims centering on the company’s aluminum manufacturing facility adjacent to Lake Ontario in Scriba. The settlement relates to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in several areas bordering the Novelis facility, including natural and man-made wetlands, man-made ponds and a stream.
One of the touchstones of rural life — a barrel full of burning household garbage — is a thing of the past starting next week, at least as far as the law is concerned.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation will ban all open burning of residential waste as of October 14. The ban had applied only in towns of 20,000 people or more, which left out every town in Oswego County. There are exceptions to the new law.
Oswego’s plan calls for reducing carbon emissions through conservation and improved energy and transportation management and, additionally, through gradually adopting renewable energy technologies.
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