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New York Gas Drilling

Consultants' Role In NY drilling Study Questioned

AP | By MARY ESCH | Posted 04.26.2013 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Government watchdog Common Cause and 11 environmental groups raised more questions Thursday about the role of gas industry-assoc...

Lynne Peeples

Don't Frack Me: New York Towns Defend Local Bans As Cuomo Considers Lifting State Moratorium

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2013 | Green

Brewery Ommegang of upstate New York fills more than 30,000 barrels with beer every year. The primary component of the popular Belgian, wheat and ambe...

Legislators Ask Cuomo For More Time On Fracking

AP | By MARY ESCH | Posted 03.11.2013 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three state Assembly committee chairmen asked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday to suspend the comment period on new gas dri...

Gas Driller Sues Small Town Over Local Ban

AP | By MARY ESCH | Posted 01.29.2013 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A natural gas drilling company is suing state regulators and a western New York town where it has operated for decades over a lo...

Anti-Fracking Candidates Fared Poorly At Polls In NY

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 01.08.2013 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Anti-fracking candidates in the Southern Tier were beaten up and down the ballot after intense campaigns, some of which were fra...

Texas Oil Company Turns Its Sights To New York Gas Drilling

AP | Posted 12.11.2012 | Green

OWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — A Texas company has begun drilling a vertical well to explore the potential of the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation, joining...

New York Regulators Expect To Miss Deadline For Finalizing Fracking Rules

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 12.01.2012 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York regulators expect to reopen their rulemaking process for natural gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, casting doubt...

'Thousands Of Unresolved Pollution Threats'

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 11.27.2012 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State regulators claim a strong record of oil and gas drilling oversight, but their own reports reveal thousands of unplugged ab...

The Fight Continues In Avon, NY

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 09.08.2012 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In the latest salvo in local battles over gas drilling, a company said Monday it's shutting down wells and turning off the free ...

'Seeking Loopholes' In Water Protection?

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 07.13.2012 | Green

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With all the restrictions in proposed state regulations and local bans, gas companies say about half of their lease holdings in ...

Second Judge Upholds NY Fracking Ban

Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012 | Green

By Dan Wiessner ALBANY, N.Y., Feb 24 (Reuters) - A New York state judge on Friday upheld an upstate community's ban on gas drilling,...

New Yorkers Divided Over Fracking Rules

AP | Posted 09.14.2011 | New York

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new Siena College poll says New York voters are about evenly split in their opinions of a new state report outlining regulatio...

Lessons from Dimock, PA: Calling for a Moratorium on Natural Gas Drilling in New York

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mark Ruffalo

Do we take the dirty-energy money and run and screw the consequences? Or do we build something more sustainable that doesn't hurt the people around us? Which do you choose?

Natural Gas Drilling: Calling on New York to Stop This Unnatural Process

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Mark Ruffalo

I don't know when America got to the point where someone can pour 590 chemicals into the ground with impunity -- where we have to argue for our right to know what's in our water and to protect our families.