Environmental groups push for update of Coast Guarda s regional oil spill plan

OSSINING Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson have submitted comments to the US Coast Guard to inform the agency on how it must revise its New York/New Jersey Area Contingency Plan, the region wide spill response plan that spells out how federal, state and local responders and oil shipping companies need to prepare for and respond to an oil spill into local waterways. Upgrading the plan to improve the spill response and maximize the recovery of spilled oil "is critical" to protecting the ecological, public health and economic resources of the Hudson River Valley from the threat of a crude oil spill into the river or New York Harbor, the environmental groups said.



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