Posted May 13, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
NRDC launched a two-week ad buy on Albany television stations today that features New York-based actors thanking Governor Cuomo for protecting the state’s world-class drinking water to-date from fracking, and urging him to formally extend the moratorium on new fracking...continued→
Posted May 3, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Yesterday, in a tremendous victory for local governments in NY, an intermediate appellate court affirmed two lower court decisions that held that municipalities have the right to exercise their traditional home rule powers to ban fracking within their borders. The...continued→
Posted April 18, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
The residents of Sanford, NY claimed a victory when their Town Board passed a resolution rescinding a seven-month-old gag order on citizens’ ability to talk about fracking. As a result, the people of Sanford will no longer be silenced. Last...continued→
Posted April 12, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
As I have blogged, recent polls suggest that opposition to fracking in New York is continuing to grow and deepen. The launch this past Tuesday of Hudson Valley United Against Fracking – at a press conference featuring former Congressman Maurice Hinchey,...continued→
Posted March 26, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution
We couldn’t agree more with today’s editorial in Albany’s Times Union entitled “Yes, a drilling moratorium.” And according to poll after recent poll showing a majority of New Yorkers are worried about fracking, it would seem we’re not alone. The...continued→
Posted March 21, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Whether in New York or nationwide—poll after poll has been showing that people are worried about fracking. Of course, with the stories we continue to hear about impacts next door in Pennsylvania and around the country, that should come as...continued→
Posted February 13, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
In an extremely encouraging new development on the fracking front here in New York, yesterday Department of Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah wrote to Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens saying: "I have determined -- and prudence dictates -- that the...continued→
Posted February 12, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Today, as part of our Community Fracking Defense Project, NRDC, together with Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy (CCSE), filed a lawsuit to protect a community’s right to free speech. What does that have to with fracking? Speaking out about fracking...continued→
Posted January 30, 2013 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
A group people who live (or, in one case, used to live) in heavily fracked parts of Pennsylvania paid a visit to Albany today to share their stories and to urge Governor Cuomo not to allow new fracking in New...continued→
Posted January 23, 2013 by Kate Sinding
While New York’s on-going review of the health impacts from fracking remains cloaked in secrecy, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology announced this week that it will be organizing a coalition of researchers from top universities—including...continued→
Posted January 14, 2013 by Kate Sinding
On Friday, NRDC and its coalition partners submitted detailed comments on the Cuomo Administration’s revised draft rules for proposed fracking in the state, revealed last month, as the 30-day opportunity for public comment came to a close. As we have...continued→
Posted December 28, 2012 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
I was fortunate to have the chance last week to attend an early screening of "Promised Land," the compelling new fracking movie starring Matt Damon, Frances MacDormand and John Krasinski and directed by Gus Van Sant. The film, which opens in selected...continued→
Posted December 18, 2012 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Earlier today, NRDC, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance, and a dozen other national and statewide groups sent a letter to the Cuomo Administration calling on it to open the on-going review of the potential health...continued→
Posted November 27, 2012 by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
Earlier today, Governor Cuomo told a group of reporters that later this week the state will be filing for a 90-day extension to its initial Nov. 29 deadline for releasing proposed regulations for fracking in New York. Because of an...continued→
Posted November 16, 2012 by Kate Sinding
New York State’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, has named three top-notch public health experts to assist in its consideration of the health risks associated with potential new fracking. These experts – Lynn Goldman, dean of George Washington University’s School...continued→
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