Sentences with phrase «for fracking ban»
Siena poll shows Gov. Andrew Cuomo's numbers up slightly heading into his 2015 State of the State / budget address, voters split in opinions of Assembly and Senate, support for fracking ban.
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If he is to secure the Democratic nomination, tantamount to re-election, he'll need to massage his party's base — this Monday's event heaping accolades upon Cuomo for the fracking ban looking like a good start.
This decision comes after Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, who advocated for a fracking ban, took nearly 5 % of the vote in the 2014 election.
But Cuomo and his commissioners did not impose a time limit for the fracking ban, leaving the door open to revisit their decision sometime in the future.
Not exact matches
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.
The same week Andrew Cuomo announced the ban on fracking, a New York State board recommended the approval of three sites for the development of resort casinos.
Resources industry figures are angry over new Premier Steven Marshall's plans to impose a 10 - year ban on fracking in a 21,000 - square - kilometre region in South Australia's south - east, and say it undermines his mantra that the state is open for business.
Instead, Cuomo has banned one industry ideal for upstate, fracking.
After banning fracking, the Cuomo administration has also started to reject applications for natural gas infrastructure, including the Constitution pipeline in the Southern Tier.
For his part, Cuomo has pointed to achievements including legalizing gay marriage, tightening gun restrictions, raising the minimum wage, banning fracking and increasing investments in education — all while working to lower taxes and jumpstart the upstate economy.
Besides banning fracking to extract natural gas, Cuomo's administration has denied permits, thrown up hurdles or delayed approvals for natural gas pipelines and storage facilities.
He helped lead the successful effort to ban the environmentally destructive practice of drilling for gas known as «fracking,» and is a leader in the fight against gun violence.
The Green Party leader is a proponent of raising the minimum wage, tuition - free public college and a ban on fracking — ideals that Hawkins said Cuomo has supported, to an extent, because Green Party candidates keep running for office.
«Andrew is to the left of Sanders on guns, will have done a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave, he's banned fracking — his total transformation from centrist to «a leftist that actually gets things done» will be complete just in time for the beginning of the next presidential cycle,» the source, a prominent Democrat, continued.
Are voters really willing to punish Cuomo for not banning fracking?
And I'm the only candidate that's calling for a ban on fracking and a commitment to clean energy.
Perhaps rattled by his relatively anemic win in last year's Democratic primary against liberal long shot Zephyr Teachout, he has quelled key camps of left - wing opposition by unilaterally banning fracking, raising wages for fast - food workers and endorsing a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.
The delays also gave local efforts to ban fracking time to get traction in towns like Dryden; today Martens claimed those legal hurdles were greatly reducing the acreage available for fracking.
Signatures were collected for a letter to Governor Cuomo to urge him to ban hydro - fracking in New York State.
«Four years ago I ran for governor calling for ban on fracking, rather than just a moratorium like most environmental groups.
As for other town business, Leifeld noted that the town's upcoming monthly meeting next week would include discussion of, and probable passage of a local law banning the technique known as hydrofracking in Olive, furthering a move the town started last April when it adopted a moratorium against fracking.
Hawkins also responded to media reports that Zephyr Teachout was pushing Cuomo to ban fracking as a condition for her possible endorsement.
Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.
«The members of the club clearly see that I'm the only candidate who will fight for economic justice, a $ 15 minimum wage, universal healthcare, 100 % clean energy and a fracking ban.
In the last two campaigns for governor, Hawkins pushed for a living wage for workers, a ban on fracking and a millionaires» tax - all positions that Cuomo later adopted as part of his platform.
In races against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2010 and 2014, he advocated for issues like a living wage for workers, a ban on fracking and a millionaires» tax.
The Green Party candidate cites Cuomo's budget cuts, enacting lowered pension benefits for new state workers, and the governor's refusal, so far, to ban hydro fracking.
The Republican takeover of the Senate from the Democrats could help force Cuomo's hand if he is thinking about running for president, said Tom West, an Albany attorney who has represented gas drillers against towns that have banned fracking.
Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»
We will force Governor Cuomo to defend his record of deep education cuts, his tax cuts for banks and billionaires, his refusal to ban fracking and his failure to lead on the Dream Act.
What's more, after nearly seven years of regulatory review that began with an executive directive before Cuomo took office, the state officially banned high - volume hydraulic fracking in 2015, denying opportunities for the state's smaller producers, which long ago saw demand outpace the supplies pulled from conventional reservoirs.
He championed a $ 15 minimum wage and enacted a 12 - week paid family leave policy; got strict gun control into law; introduced a free (though imperfect) college tuition program for certain students; banned fracking; allocated $ 10 million for a defense fund for immigrants facing deportation; and raised the age for juvenile offenders to 18.
... The poll's findings were release the same day a new coalition of state and federal organizations launched a push for an all - out fracking ban in NYS.
According to my sources, heated negotiations were taking place last night to modify the fracking ban resolution into one calling for a mere «moratorium.»
The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»
While a fracking ban seems definitive and difficult to challenge — though there is some talk of lawsuits, as Cuomo predicted — Libous does see a remedy for the casino situation.
The New York chapter of the American Petroleum Institute has let the deadline pass for filing a legal challenge to the state's fracking ban.
A ban on drilling for underground shale gas, otherwise known as fracking, has been lifted, the energy secretary has announced.
The Saratogian says the Cuomo administration's trial balloon for a limited fracking plan «won't float,» and urges a complete ban until further study has deemed the process undeniably safe.
The rest of them are pretty worthless because they don't stand for anything so far as I can tell, or worse they stand for whatever will get them re-elected including supporting Cuomo on the SAFE Act and his idiotic fracking ban which has cost us 20,000 jobs.
«It's good business,» he said, while others talked about how one town's having fracking in the midst of others banning it, could ruin an environment for all.
And while fracking has gotten the most attention — demonstrators calls on him to ban the practice show up at many of Cuomo's public events — the other projects on hold could have significant implications for New York.
As an elected official I have pranced my way to victory with: the assault rifle ban; marriage equality; the fracking ban; free community college tuition... And I will keep delivering results by fighting in the Senate for all Marylanders.
Chris Tucker, a spokesman for the Independent Petroleum Association of America's Energy in Depth project, contrasted the EPA report with the public health - focused report that the Cuomo administration released to support the New York state fracking ban.
Make no mistake — on Tuesday's primary you have a choice — to vote for a current / five - term Dutchess County Legislator who has fought fracking tooth and nail for four years (1,100 signed on to the www.PetitionOnline.com/NoDrill effort I launched in 2008); I believe fracking should be banned and criminalized — or my primary opponent, who actually said this of fracking to Alan Chartock on WAMC April 17: «In terms of the impact I think the jury is still out.»
Hydro - fracking has been banned in New York State for nearly a year now, but opponents of the natural gas extraction process have other concerns, including new pipelines.
Ulster County Executive Mike Hein issued an executive order last week banning the use of fracking brine — a residue of drilling for natural gas, cheaper than salt — on county roads.
«In a very small - turnout election you have the [state] teachers union, which is against me, you have the public employees that are against me... and the fracking people, probably the largest single issue for activist Democrats, who are upset that I won't ban it.»
State Senator Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat who is pushing for a ban on fracking, says he thinks the opponents are winning the public relations battles over the controversial drilling practice, and predicts that will eventually have an effect on Cuomo.
His advocates note that he's pushed parts of the Women's Equality Act and introduced the (un-passed) Dream Act in his budget, in addition to compiling progressive achievements including a ban on fracking and impaneling a board to recommend a higher minimum wage for fast food workers.