Jeff Murray

Environmental data analyst Walter Hang discusses a 1988 report about industrial pollution at Elmira High School that he claims was never made public.
(Photo: Jeff Murray / Staff photo)

An environmental data analyst who has been digging into the industrial history of the Elmira High School property said state officials had a copy of an alarming report on the site in 1988, and did nothing.

Protesters block the gate at the Crestwood Midstream facility on Seneca Lake earlier this year.
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Arlington Storage Co., a subsidiary of Crestwood Midstream Partners, is abandoning controversial plans to expand natural gas storage in salt caverns along Seneca Lake.

A contentious plan to locate a wastewater disposal site in the Steuben County town of Pulteney is officially dead, although the company that proposed the project is leaving the door open for similar facilities in the future.


Chesapeake Energy sought approval to convert an abandoned natural gas well on the west side of Keuka Lake into a site that would accept more than 180,000 gallons of wastewater a day.