Sentences with phrase «banning hydraulic fracturing»
Hawkins supports banning hydraulic fracturing, freeing all non-violent drug offenders from prison, stopping fossil fuel infrastructure construction, increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, single - payer health care and ending corporate personhood, among other issues.
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Hawkins, 61, of Syracuse, supports banning hydraulic fracturing, stopping fossil fuel infrastructure construction, increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, single - payer health care and ending corporate personhood.
LAKE GEORGE Declaring their intent to protect Lake George's environment, the Lake George Town Board recently established a new law banning hydraulic fracturing in town.
The Erie County Legislature voted, 9 - 2, to approve a local law banning hydraulic fracturing on county - owned property.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration is banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in New York, citing concerns about health and environmental risks.
«I am pleased that the DEC will permanently ban hydraulic fracturing in sensitive watershed areas and the aquifers that feed them,» Silver said.
That same day, Governor Cuomo's administration announced it would ban hydraulic fracturing.
«Governor Cuomo, please do everything in your power to ban hydraulic fracturing throughout New York State.
On another, Adam Skelos emitted a high - pitched moan when he discussed with his father Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's decision to ban hydraulic fracturing, a move Adam Skelos saw as cutting off some business opportunities for him.
The decision came at an especially sensitive time for the Southern Tier: On the same day as the casino decision, the Cuomo's administration announced that it would ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, seen by some as another economic lifeline for the region.
Former Gov. David Paterson, the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party, clashed with his Republican counterpart Ed Cox over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision today to ban hydraulic fracturing — with Mr. Cox casting the Democrats as a troupe of business - hating eco-fanatics, and Mr. Paterson slamming Mr. Cox as a greedy energy tycoon.
The city's leading Democrats all hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision today to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State, reaffirming stances they'd long taken against the gas extraction process.
An important reason for New York State to ban hydraulic fracturing was the need to move from a fossil fuel - based economy to one based on non-greenhouse gas - emitting alternative fuels.
Farmers and foodies are urging Governor Cuomo to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State right away.
The debate over whether a municipality can ban hydraulic fracturing within its borders was brought before the New York State Court of Appeals Tuesday afternoon.
Having banned hydraulic fracturing, New York's Governor is now blocking a pipeline to deliver cheap natural gas to New York and New England.
Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the upstate New York region that was targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking.
New York State voters approve of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent decision to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by a margin of 55 to 25 percent.
Quick, somebody tell officials in New York state — where they continue to ban hydraulic fracturing, the key to unlocking vast natural gas reserves located right under New Yorkers» feet, to the benefit of New York consumers, New York job - seekers and New York's environment.
(CNN)-- «I consider the people of New York my patients,» acting New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said this week as he cited health - related reasons for recommending New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ban hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to develop natural gas resources in the state.
Six months ago Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned hydraulic fracturing as too hazardous.
New York's top court ruled last month that communities could ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Last week, the same editors who support EPA's carbon dioxide rules and routinely call for a carbon tax came out against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Empire State, dubbing -LSB-...]
But to ban hydraulic fracturing — and abandon these revenues and jobs?
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June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» Shafran said, listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.
The ban applied to high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.
On a hot and breezy August morning, more than 1,000 protesters gathered in Albany calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban the drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing in New York State.
The performer's message, sent via the mayor's campaign listserv, recalled de Blasio's support for his pet cause: banning the use of hydraulic fracturing to access natural gas deposits in upstate New York.
He said Cuomo has «delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country,» listing the legalization of gay marriage, the new minimum wage law, a gun - control law and the ban on hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.
The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.
While high - volume hydraulic fracturing is banned in New York State, using propane to bust open shale formations and release natural gas is not.
Others were upset by the ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because they believe the gas drilling process would boost that region's struggling economy.
An East Rochester attorney waging a years - long battle over New York's hydraulic fracturing ban is taking a new approach, filing a lawsuit last week attempting to force the state to compensate him for the oil - and - gas rights on his land.
Seggos succeeds Joe Martens, who announced his departure earlier this year just days after the state formalized its ban on hydraulic fracturing.
The state's final ban is on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, which uses large volumes of water mixed with sand and chemicals to create fractures in rock that release gas.
What's banned in New York is high - volume hydraulic fracturing.»
The Cuomo administration's fracking ban centered on the risks hydraulic fracturing posed to drinking water supplies.
«Now that the EPA has confirmed what top scientists have said all along, that fracking is safe and has no widespread impact on drinking water, we are calling on Commissioner Martens and the state Department of Environmental Conservation to rescind the temporary ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State.»
He promises to continue to work to advance his party's agenda — including their push to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing of New York shale deposits.
He is running on issues that resonate with the left, including a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a $ 15 minimum wage and more progressive tax structure («Tax the Rich - Share the Revenues» reads his web site).
A new report examines the possibility and practice of potentially radioactive out - of - state fracking waste getting dumped in New York despite Governor Cuomo's ongoing implementation of a ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing.
Less than a year ago, the Cuomo administration banned high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York as a means to extract natural gas.
Lead by 17 - year - old senior, Anna Wysocki, who served as spokesperson for the student panel cited the governors endorsement of the ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of the danger the drilling process posed to the safety of drinking water.
And in what is seen as another year - ending triumph, his administration imposed a ban on gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing.
At the session on tick - borne illness — a major district concern that has earned Gibson votes from the left and right — she led off by pointing to New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing as evidence of what a groundswell of opposition can do.
Wolf restored a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», in state parks and placed a moratorium on the death penalty within Pennsylvania.
Rep. - elect John Katko said the report which led officials in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration to call for a ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing was «riddled with speculation and not facts» and fails to address whether hydrofracking is safe.
According to the study, «screenings of Gasland in different locations had an effect on the mobilization of local campaigns against the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing; in turn, those local mobilizations made local policymakers significantly more likely to take action to ban the practice of fracking.»
DENVER (Reuters)- Voters in three Colorado communities have decided to suspend or ban an oil and gas production process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to unofficial election returns on Wednesday.