Category: Habitat Restoration

PRESS RELEASE: Paddle for the Sound Returns July 31 – August 9 to Support a Healthier Long Island Sound

Join fellow paddlers in a kayak, stand up paddleboard, or canoe challenge to protect clean water, wildlife, and coastal communities NEW HAVEN, Conn., and LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Save the Sound’s Paddle for the Sound returns for its eleventh year from July 31 through August 9, inviting paddlers of all experience levels to kayak, stand up paddleboard, or canoe while raising funds to protect and restore Long Island Sound.  Paddle for the Sound allows participants to paddle from any location throughout the 10-day […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Enviro Orgs File Lawsuit Seeking Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed New Mill Pond Dam

Restoring Long Island’s Nissequogue River natural wildlife habitat and supporting the natural floodplain at forefront of litigation (EAST ISLIP, NY – July 13, 2026) — Six environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Suffolk County Legislature challenging the County’s failure to fully evaluate the potential ecological and community resilience impacts of building a new […]

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Hopeful signs for river herring

Not so very long ago, the numbers were bleak. The 2022 spring fish run in Connecticut was down about 350,000 alewife. Blueback herring fared even worse—only 570 bluebacks were counted by state-monitored runs, a decrease of 99.9 percent from 1985. Both species of river herring are critical to the food web, in Connecticut’s rivers and […]

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Midnight Wrap-up: Save the Sound Responds to Environmental Outcomes of the 2026 Connecticut Legislative Session

Hartford, CT — The 2026 Connecticut Legislative Session ended tonight at midnight, delivering important wins and hard-fought compromises for solar access, clean transportation, and ecosystem protection.   Below, Save the Sound policy experts comment on the outcomes of the 2026 session.  Advancing Renewable Energy, Clean Air, and Environmental Justice  “On the last day of the legislative session, the General Assembly passed a solar bill that ensures that the state’s residential, commercial, […]

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Press Release: Proposal to build new dam threatens recovery of Nissequogue River and Lands it #7 on America’s Most Endangered Rivers List of 2026

American Rivers is today naming the Nissequogue River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2026, due to the recently approved proposal to build a new dam without a comprehensive environmental impact statement. The unexpected breach of Stump Pond Dam in 2024 restored an important stretch of the Nissequogue, reconnecting habitat, allowing the floodplain to function […]

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Press Release: Save the Sound Applauds Reauthorization of Programs Critical to Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound Partnership, National Estuary Program, BEACH Act clear hurdle Tuesday night Three programs critical to supporting Save the Sound’s work to restore and protect Long Island Sound were included in the American Water Stewardship Act (H.R. 6422), which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday night in a decisive bipartisan floor […]

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Suffolk County Legislature Advances Stump Pond Dam Build with Negative Declaration, Despite Serious Ecological and Flooding Concerns; Save the Sound Responds

Since 2024 dam breach, free-flowing Nissequogue has begun to recover and habitat is improving  The Suffolk County Legislature has voted to issue a negative declaration for the proposed construction of a new dam at the former site of Stump Pond Dam in Smithtown, determining that the project would not result in significant adverse environmental impacts […]

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Press Release: Save the Sound applauds Gov. Hochul’s clean water commitments in 2026 State of the State agenda

$3.75 billion proposed over five years for clean water infrastructure funding Save the Sound applauds Governor Hochul’s proposal of “a bold five-year, $3.75 billion commitment to water infrastructure, with $750 million in funding per year.” The Governor did not mention this investment in her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, but it was […]

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