State wins lawsuit against FMC
PRESS RELEASE MIDDLEPORT – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced a legal victory in state court that will allow…
Schneiderman leads 27-member State, County, & City coalition in defending Clean Power Plan
PRESS RELEASE Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, leading a 27-member coalition of states, counties, and cities, today filed comments opposing the Trump administration’s “unlawful and unsupported” proposed repeal of the…
A.G. Schneiderman wins $858,000 judgment against Fulton County mobile home park
PRESS RELEASE PERTH, N.Y. — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office has won a $858,000 judgment against a Fulton County mobile home park and its owner…
Schneiderman leads coalition in challenge to clean water protection delay
STAFF REPORTS NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 11 Attorneys General, challenged the legality of a Trump Administration proposed two-year suspension of the “Clean…
Schneiderman battles Trump again — over energy efficiency standards
PRESS RELEASE New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leading a coalition of 11 Attorneys General and the City of New York, today filed a…
Protest planned for transportation of radioactive materials on Peace Bridge
STAFF REPORTS BUFFALO — A protest over shipments of highly radioactive liquid nuclear waste over the Peace Bridge is planned for 2 p.m. Friday at Front Park. Further protests are…
Schneiderman challenges EPA over pesticide
STAFF REPORTS NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, leading a coalition of seven state Attorneys General, announced a challenge to President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
Schneiderman joins coalition to maintain commitments to Paris Climate Agreement
STAFF REPORTS NEW YORK – Following President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman…
Gillibrand calls Paris Accord withdrawal ‘shortsighted’
PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today issued the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord: “This decision by President…
EPA awards Niagara County $300K to assess contaminated sites
PRESS RELEASE SANBORN — Niagara County yet again captured a high-dollar grant to fund its work remediating contaminated sites left over from the county’s industrial history, scoring $300,000 from the…