Category Archives: Environment

Let’s Get Real about Climate Change

Posted on January 9, 2019 by D. Posnett MD

Carbon emissions rose sharply in the US in 2018.  We are now talking about a likely 3 degree global temperature rise by 2100, beyond the point of no return.  Just look at the predicted effect on major cities worldwide.  Miami … Continue reading →

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Lee Zeldin: We call BS when we see BS!

Posted on October 5, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

By Marc Rauch To the editor of the Long Island Advance: NY-01 Representative Lee Zeldin has tried to portray himself as an environmentalist in a recent TV campaign ad, in press releases and in letters to constituents. However, a new … Continue reading →

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Trump Mouths off About “Windmills”

Posted on September 15, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Submitted by Judith Hope: In an Aug. 30 rally in Evansville, Indiana, President Donald Trump made three unsubstantiated claims about wind turbines, which he calls “windmills”: Trump suggested that a single turbine can be responsible for “thousands” of bird deaths. … Continue reading →

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Don’t Make Me Laugh

Posted on September 13, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

  By Perry Gershon: Lee Zeldin wants you to think he’s an environmentalist. He’s spending big bucks blasting that absurd idea across Long Island television. Don’t make me laugh. In his four years in Congress, Lee has voted against the … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Men

Posted on September 8, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Bleached Staghorn Coral By James Ewing (Watermill, NY) “The GOP Republican party is the most dangerous organization in human history…dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on earth.”—Noam Chomsky, scholar, MIT. What are these most dangerous … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s Environmental Voting Record Goes from Bad to Worse

Posted on August 28, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Lee Zeldin wants to Drill in the Ironwood Forest National Monument By Marc Rauch: Latest update: Zeldin’s Environmental Voting Record Goes from Bad to Worse in 2018 In the first 3 years of Lee Zeldin’s congressional term (2015-2017), he earned … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s War on the Environment

Posted on August 20, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

By Perry Gershon:  (Source: https://www.facebook.com/pg/perry4congress/posts/?ref=page_internal) Lee Zeldin continues to support the Trump Administration’s destruction of our environmental protections. The new “plan” for coal represents one more example of the total disregard for the serious health effects of air pollution. The … Continue reading →

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Flip the House — Defeat Zeldin!

Posted on August 4, 2018 by amyturner2000

By Jacquelyn Gavron & Amy Turner, July 19, 2018 New York’s First Congressional District (NY-1), historically a swing district, is represented by Lee Zeldin (R). He was initially elected with Tea Party support and is an unwavering Trump loyalist with … Continue reading →

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Money Cannot be Eaten

Posted on July 30, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Pronounced extinct in 1979, a small colony of black-footed ferrets was found in the wild near Meeteesee, WY, in 1981. Animals from this colony were used to start a captive breeding program, which has since released hundreds of animals back … Continue reading →

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We Are Not Stuck With Zeldin

Posted on May 26, 2018 by cdsprings

Fight Back East Hampton May 21, 2018 To the Editor, I want to live in an America that strives to be the best it can be, an America that does not look backward with blinders on and pine for illusory … Continue reading →

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Global Warming and Crumbling Mountains

Posted on March 3, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Published Feb 28th, 2018 in the East Hampton Star, under Guest Words: http://easthamptonstar.com/Opinion/2018228/Global-Crumbling In August 2017 the mountain world witnessed an impressive manifestation of global warming. An entire mountain-side in the Swiss alps broke loose and crashed into the Bondasca … Continue reading →

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Talk is Cheap Mr. Zeldin

Posted on February 28, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

From James Ewing:  A reminder of where Lee Zeldin stands on the environment.  The Scorecard as per the League of Conservation Voters. To get the specifics on each vote go their website and click on the “vote name”: http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/lee-zeldin Green … Continue reading →

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Zeldin’s (Dismal) Voting Record—At a Glance

Posted on January 28, 2018 by amyturner2000

by A.Turner and J.Gavron To defeat Zeldin, we need to understand his voting record and dispel the perception that he’s pro-environment and a moderate Republican. His record reveals his extremist views on issues such as gun ownership and women’s rights. … Continue reading →

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Zeldin on drilling: tepid

Posted on January 18, 2018 by D. Posnett MD

Published today in the East Hampton Star as a letter to the editor: Just Two Sentences   Lee Zeldin released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to open United States waters to offshore oil drilling: “I … Continue reading →

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Zeldin Boasting about Environment Record?

Posted on January 2, 2018 by maidstonejewelry

Recently Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus and founding member of the “Congressional Estuary Caucus”, was joined by EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Carrie Meek … Continue reading →

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We Can Reverse Climate Change

Posted on November 30, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

By Cate Rogers, East Hampton, NY (Copyright: Peter Weber Shutterstock) I was thrilled to participate in a free showing at my local library of the film “An Inconvenient Truth”, being a new pinned Climate Leader of The Climate Reality Project, … Continue reading →

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Those Bothersome Facts

Posted on November 4, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

In the age of “alternative facts”, Breitbart and Fox faux news, we can all make an effort to point out BS when we recognize it!  Bravo Nigel, an R&R regular, for his Letter to the Editor of the East Hampton … Continue reading →

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Bridget Fleming

Posted on November 4, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

Her Accomplishments (Letter to the Editor from this week in the East Hampton Star) Bridget Fleming has served as a Suffolk County legislator for the past two years, and in that time has distinguished herself as someone who gets results. … Continue reading →

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Sonic Sea

Posted on October 19, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

  On Long Island we are witness to a series of beached whales and dolphins (same family as whales). This is not new.  I have previously blogged about it. There are some newer reports and many older reports.  This week … Continue reading →

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A Golden Opportunity for Carbon Fees

Posted on October 12, 2017 by D. Posnett MD

From: John Andrews Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:01 PM Dear Long Island East CCLers (Citizens’ Climate Lobby), Now that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has gutted President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, it is a perfect opportunity to ask … Continue reading →

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