Bill and volunteers hope to attract more people to the river and create additional river access points. HOW YOU CAN HELP River Eco-Cruises operate solely on contributions from concerned citizens, such as yourself, and from other conservation focused organizations. Your support is urgently needed and provides the basis for all operations, including educational, ecological and advocacy. Eco-Cruises increase public awareness of the Hackensack River and its estuary, promote its recreational uses and its value as a wildlife habitat. Appreciation of the Meadowlands resulting from Eco-Cruises motivates citizens to join in preserving it as a natural resource for future generations.
All contributions are tax-deductible.
By David Brinkerhoff Los Angeles - Tosco Corp., California's No. 3 gasoline retailer, said on Wednesday it would stop selling gasoline made with the controversial additive MTBE in the San Francisco area through March. The move marks the expansion of pilot programme began last April to remove MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether, from the gasoline Tosco sells in counties around San Francisco Bay. Critics charge the chemical causes cancer and seeps too easily into groundwater from storage tanks. Tosco and Chevron Corp. , the state's largest refiner, have supported federal legislation to allow the state to drop so-called oxygenates such as MTBE from gasoline. Supporters say the ingredient is doing its job - cleaning the state's badly polluted air.