Ed Drantch

1 week ago | wkbw.com | Ed Drantch

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — One New York State lawmaker says he's had enough of the emissions issue at Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Niagara Falls. He's now calling on the new commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation to visit Niagara Falls and see the problem first hand. Assemblyman Angelo Morinello is increasingly alarmed about emissions of ortho-toluidine, coming from the plant, a chemical linked to cancer.

1 week ago | wkbw.com | Ed Drantch

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — As fast as the Niagara River flows, boaters are enrolling in safe boating courses. For the first time ever, all boaters in New York State are required to complete a state-approved boating safety course under Brianna's Law. This law, named in memory of an 11-year-old girl who tragically lost her life in a boating accident, aims to promote safety and awareness for everyone on the water.

3 weeks ago | wkbw.com | Ed Drantch

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Ahead of his federal death penalty trial, the Tops mass shooting gunman's attorneys are asking the court for a change of venue. Payton Gendron shot and killed ten Black people in Tops on Jefferson Avenue, in May 2022. Three other people were hurt in the shooting. Prosecutors say he fired 60 shots before he was finally taken into custody by Buffalo Police. Gendron has been sentenced to life in prison on New York State hate crime charges.

1 month ago | wkbw.com | Ed Drantch

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — There are major questions about transparency inside the Erie County Sheriff's Office. This comes almost a year after Chief of Narcotics and Intelligence Dan Granville, is accused of hitting seven parked cars while he was driving a county-owned truck, on Buffalo's west side. Granville's sister-in-law, a Buffalo police lieutenant, signed off on the police reports from the crashes. There is no indication drug or alcohol testing was done at the scene.

1 month ago | wkbw.com | Ed Drantch

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — Goodyear Niagara Falls is weeks away from a state mandated deadline, to submit an Air Pollution Control Engineering Study, that would detail "performance of emission testing of upgraded air emission sources..."It's part of an agreement between New York State and Goodyear, after the company was fined $15,000 in January, for two air emission violations. This study comes nearly 50 years after Niagara Falls became synonymous with environmental disaster from Love Canal.