Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
I wrote yesterday about the inadequacy of Chesapeake's decision not to exercise its right to drill in NYC's watershed and the need for the state to impose an across-the-board ban on drilling in that most precious resource. Today a New...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Yesterday evening, Chesapeake Energy Corp. quietly leaked the news that it would not develop the leases it has purchased for natural gas exploration in the New York City watershed - which supplies clean, unfiltered drinking water to 9 million New...
Posted by Kate Sinding in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Are you a New Yorker? Do you drink water? Like it free of dangerous chemicals? You may want to read this. Last week, New York State came closer to breaking ground on a controversial gas drilling practice upstate in the...
