Protect the Adirondacks

Environmental advocates say progress was made in areas like funding for the Environmental Protection Fund, they are disappointed with lack of action on road salt controls and rollbacks to the state’s 2019 climate law.

Protect the Adirondacks has been calling for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct a so-called “carry capacity” study. The group says the state agency has failed to comply with management plans requirements, and it has sued to require compliance.

More than 300 advocacy and environmental groups have written to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul asking that she include updates to the state’s four-decade-old bottle bill as part of her 2026 agenda.

Environmental advocacy groups are urging New York voters to approve a state constitutional amendment.

Adirondack environmental groups are lauding a ruling from New York’s highest court that finds a Department of Environmental Conservation project building…

In early July, the New York Appellate Court issued a split decision on a lawsuit filed by Protect the Adirondacks in 2013 challenging the state’s plan to…

New York is appealing a court decision that has halted trail work in the Adirondacks.The Department of Environmental Conservation is asking the state's…

In 2013, Protect the Adirondacks filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of New York state’s plan to cut trees in the Forest Preserve and build nearly 27…

A new report by Protect the Adirondacks says the region’s economy and population from 1970 to 2010 largely mirrored that of the rest of rural America,…

New York State has begun the process of applying to the federal Surface Transportation Board for the formal abandonment of a 30-mile section of the…