road salt

The Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force met in Lake Placid this week.

The Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, created by the New York state legislature in 2020 to assess the negative effects of the use of the chemical on roads and the surrounding ecosystems, held its first meeting on Monday.

The sixth annual conference on reducing the use of road salt was held today in Lake George. Strategies to protect the environment and save municipalities money were on display.

As part of an effort to reduce the use of road salt in the Adirondacks, the FUND For Lake George has released a film to demonstrate how communities in the…

Environmental advocates and North Country lawmakers are celebrating New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing of a bill aimed at reducing the use of road…

The New York state Legislature has passed a measure that will create a pilot program to reduce the use of road salt in the Adirondacks.More than 190,000…

The New York Senate and Assembly members representing the Adirondack region have introduced legislation intended to limit road salt pollution.According to…

The latest report assessing the health of Mirror Lake in the Adirondacks finds it continues to be negatively affected by road salt.The Ausable River…

Using less road salt would help mitigate damaging effects on the environment, and on municipal and state budgets. So says a new report from the Cary…

As the sight of trucks and plows on icy roads becomes a winter memory, a study from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies reveals the impact of road…