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Local and Regional Environmental Advocacy Organizations in DEC Region 1 (Long Island)

Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York

Regional Organizations

Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK), Long Island Chapter
Contact: Tom Farre, Chapter President
Phone: 631-427-4795
Email: info@adkli.org

Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Long Island/Metro New York Chapter

225-A Main Street
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 516-390-7150
FAX: 516-390-7160
Email: farmingdale@citizenscampaign.org

Long Island Neighborhood Network
7180 Republic Airport
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Phone: 631-963-5454
FAX: 631-963-5466
Email: linnet@neighborhood-network.org

Long Island Pine Barrens Society
547 East Main Street
Riverhead, NY 11901
Phone: 631-369-3300
FAX: 631-369-3389
Email: info@pinebarrens.org

Long Island Progressive Coalition
90 Pennsylvania Avenue
Massapequa, NY 11758
Phone: 516-541-1006
FAX: 516-541-2113
Email: lipc@lipc.org

New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH)
1 Atwell Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Phone: 800-343-7527
FAX: 607-547-6087

Save the Sound
18 Reynolds Street
East Norwalk, CT 06855
Phone: 203-354-0036
Toll Free: 888-7283-547
FAX: 203-354-0041
Email: savethesound@savethesound.org

Sierra Club Long Island Group
Contact: Jennifer Gomez, Group Chair
P.O. Box 210
Syosset, NY 11791
Phone: 516-826-0801

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Organizations in Nassau County

Friends of the Bay
123 South Street, Suite 209
P.O. Box 564
Oyster Bay, NY 11771
Phone: 516-922-6666
FAX: 516-706-8750
Email: info@friendsofthebay.org

Fuerza Unida De Glen Cove, Inc.
14 Glen Street, Suite 307
Glen Cove, NY 11542
Phone: 516-759-0788
FAX: 516-759-3465

League of Women Voters of Nassau County
Contact: Barbara DuBow, President
P.O. Box 539
Point Lookout, NY 11569
Phone: 516-431-1628
E-mail: info@lwvofnassaucounty.org

Long Island Planning Council
Contact: Cathy McGrory Powell, Chairperson
P.O. Box 192
Wantagh, NY 11793
Phone: 516-826-5748
FAX: 516-781-0666

New Cassel Environmental Justice Project, Inc.
Contact: Mildred Little
847 Prospect Avenue
Westbury, NY 11590
Phone: 516-876-9526
FAX: 516-876-9529

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
Nassau Community College Chapter

College Union 305-6
Garden City, NY 11530-2200
Phone: 516-222-0086
E-mail: nassau@nypirg.org

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
Old Westbury Chapter

Contact: Okenfe Aigbe, Project Coordinator
301J Student Union Building
Old Westbury, NY 11568
Phone: 516-876-8126
E-mail: oldwestbury@nypirg.org

Sustainable Long Island
55 Hilton Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
Phone: 516-873-0230
FAX: 516-873-0706
E-mail: sli@sustainableli.org

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Organizations in Suffolk County

Fire Island Wilderness Committee
325 Beaver Dam Road
Brookhaven, NY 11719
Email: fiwilderness@earthlink.net

Friends of the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plains Preserve
Contact: Denis Byrne, Fouder, or Patricia Burkhart, Events Coordinator
34 Quail Run Drive
Deer Park, NY 11729
Phone: 631-836-2616 or 631-242-7420
FAX: 631-940-4898

Group for the South Fork
2442 Main Street
P.O. Box 569
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Phone: 631-537-1400

New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
Stony Brook Chapter

Contact: Scott Zotto and Kate Contino, Project Coordinators
State University College
Stony Brook Union, Room 079
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-632-6457
E-mail: stonybrook@nypirg.org

Peconic Baykeeper
10 Old Country Road
P.O. Box 893
Quogue, NY 11959
Phone: 631-653-4804
FAX: 631-653-4802
Email: info@peconicbaykeeper.org

Post-Morrow Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 204
Brookhaven, New York 11719-0204
Phone: 631-286-0686
FAX: 631-286-4036
E-mail: 16bay@postmorrow.org

Suffolk County Environmental Management Council
Contact: George Proios
P.O. Box 6100
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Phone: 631-853-4654
FAX: 631-853-4412

Three Village Community Trust, Inc.
P.O. Box 2596
Setauket, NY 11733-0763
Phone: 631-689-0225

NOTE: This database includes local organizations that advocate principles consistent with environmental justice, including pollution prevention, sustainability, resource conservation and environmental health. However, in some cases the listed organizations may not advocate on behalf of Potential Environmental Justice Areas, as defined by the DEC in NYSDEC Commissioner Policy 29, Environmental Justice and Permitting. Please contact the individual organizations for more information.

If you would like to have your organization added to or removed from this database, or you need to report any errors or omissions in contact information, please e-mail the Office of Environmental Justice at ej@gw.dec.state.ny.us

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