
Mackenzie Shuman
Climate Change and Environment Reporter at Buffalo News
Climate and environment reporter for @TheBuffaloNews | Previously: @SLOTribune | @Cronkite_ASU grad 🌈
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman
Two vital harbors along southern Lake Ontario will see dredging this summer to ensure they remain open and safe for recreational boaters. Oak Orchard Harbor, just north of Kent and Great Sodus Bay, east of Rochester, will be dredged by Michigan-based Dean Marine & Excavating under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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3 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman
A huge section of Cattaraugus Creek was turned the color of split-pea soup this week. The green-yellow hue of the waterway would have been alarming to anyone who didn’t know the reason. But there was no need for anyone to worry, except for the thousands of sea lamprey larvae the pesticide was designed to kill.
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3 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman
The Buffalo Sewer Authority is holding four public meetings to explain more about its $1 billion Queen City Clean Waters Initiative. The first meeting is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Schiller Park Community Center. The Sewer Authority's billion-dollar plan is expected to help reduce combined sewage overflows that plague the city during wet weather.
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4 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman
A $6.3 billion data center could be built in rural Genesee County beginning next year, despite fierce opposition from the neighboring Tonawanda Seneca Nation. Stream Data Centers, of Dallas, is set to construct the 900,000-square-foot data center – roughly the same square footage as nine Home Depot warehouse stores – on the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP site, in Genesee County.
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4 weeks ago |
buffalonews.com | Mackenzie Shuman
Current and proposed budget cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put Western New Yorkers at risk, according to various current and former employees at the agency, as well as those familiar with the agency. Western New York relies on NOAA science, research and data gathering for information about harmful algal bloom forecasts – which the agency no longer has the capacity to deliver – as well as improved weather modeling for lake-effect snowstorms.
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