Sands casino: Plan could draw traffic and water quality worries, stakeholders say
John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, which represents several construction and trade unions, said the environmental documents Nassau County and Sands have already produced is "one of the most robust scoping documents we've seen on Long Island."
"This is an opportunity for us to understand this 70-plus-acre site in a truly holistic way," Durso said. "It provides the community, our legislators, and the developers with the knowledge to create and deliver a project that doesn't just maintain the environmental status quo. It gives that information to actually improve the environmental integrity of the site for long-term success."