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Albany makes progress on 3 strong green bills this week

February 24, 2010

Posted by Richard Schrader in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

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albany, cleanenergy, diesel, dirtydiesel, energyefficiency, greenbuildings, greenjobs, heatingoil, jobs, netmetering, newyorksenate, senatormaziarz, senatorparker, senatorperkins, senatorsampson

The New York State Senate leadership tested its balky majority by taking up several environmental and clean energy bills this week.  Look up the word “frail” in the dictionary and that will define their current state – a tight 32-30...

New York Environmental Activists Lobby Legislators on the Impacts of Natural Gas Drilling

February 8, 2010

Posted by Richard Schrader in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment

Tags:
environmentalimpactstatement, fracking, hydrofracking, naturalgas, naturalgasdrilling

On January 25, environmental activists from across New York State gathered in Albany to rally and speak with legislators about the threat of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Despite the monsoon-ish rainstorm, a large and lively rally was...