[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, BIOLABS: "Congress Votes to Protect Plum Island!"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Plum Island is the site of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Center and before that Fort Terry. - LS]


Congress Votes to Protect Plum Island!


by Mike Shelter
New York League of Conservation Voters
May 21, 2016

On Monday, May 16th, the House unanimously passed “Save, Don’t Sell Plum Island”, Bill H.R. 1887 after it breezed through a vote by the House Homeland Security Committee on April 28th.  Introduced last year by sponsor Congress member Lee Zeldin, 1st District of New York, this bill reverses a 2008 decision to put the island up for sale, which would lead to the destruction of the island, and lead to future development.

“Plum Island is truly a natural, cultural and historical treasure that has been cherished by our local community since before the 1700s, which is why protecting this critical land is so important,” Zeldin said in part of his sponsorship for the bill.  

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For the entire article, see
http://nylcv.org/news/congress-votes-protect-plum-island/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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