[CPEO-MEF] BIODEFENSE, REUSE: Enviro group "Raises Concerns About Future Of Plum Island" (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NYLCV Raises Concerns About Future Of Plum Island

 

by Dan Hendrick 

New York League of Conservation Votgers EcoPolitics Daily

October 25, 2012

 

Environmental groups including NYLCV are raising concerns about the federal government's plan to sell Plum Island, located off the Suffolk County shore of Long Island. 

 

The island is home to the nation's only lab dedicated to studying infectious animal diseases. The General Services Administration (GSA) is handling the sale of the 840-acre island, with the current lab's research operations set to move to a new $1.14-billion facility to be built in Kansas.

 

Environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Audubon Society, and Save the Sound worry that selling Plum Island and its development rights would be bad for the area's abundant wildlife, which includes several threatened and endangered species of migratory birds.

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For the entire blog, see

http://www.nylcv.org/ecopoliticsdaily/20121025_nylcv_raises_concerns_about_future_of_plum_island

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight

a project of the Pacific Studies Center

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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545

Fax: 650-961-8918

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