Defending the Hudson River

Engaging in one of the most potentially volatile Hudson River controversies in years, Pace University Environmental Policy Clinic students participated in an official US Coast Guard process of governance and policy.

This November, Christina Thomas ’19, Environmental Studies, and Margaret (Peggy) Doyle ’19, Economics, were invited by the US Coast Guard to be official observers at a Port and Waterway Safety Assessment (PAWSA) workshop in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was the first public step in studying a Coast Guard plan to permit 43 special anchorages on the Hudson River where commercial ships, many carrying petroleum products, could drop anchor.

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Environmental science students Nadine Zeidan ’25 and Sophie Valle ’26 received a 2024-2025 Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Award. Environmental Studies student Danielle Shoulders ’25 received a Summer 2024 Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Award.

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