Sentences with phrase «fracking ban»

All the talk of progressive policies like another minimum wage hike and establishment of a public campaign finance system and a formal fracking ban makes business leaders very nervous.

He called for a national fracking ban, charging that the controversial drilling practice poses a risk to the country's drinking water supply and the overall climate.

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.

The Dallas Morning News reports that the state ban on fracking bans won a «sweeping victory» with «overwhelming bipartisan support» in both of Texas» legislative houses.

The group called on Governor Larry Hogan to complete the statewide fracking ban by stopping fracked - gas infrastructure and ultimately reject the project.

New York landowners blocked from cashing in on the natural gas boom by the state's just - announced fracking ban may fight back in court, but experts say energy companies are unlikely to spend their money and time on lawsuits when they've already lost their investments.

Democratic Platform Committee members, including Josh Fox and Bill McKibben, joined advocates and environmentalists in calling for a nationwide fracking ban to be adopted in the platform ahead of the committee's meeting in Orlando, FL today.

He also said that fracking serves as an excellent example of how community activists grapple with contentious energy issues and the environment, particularly because of recent legislation that makes local fracking bans illegal in states such as Texas.

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.

«Hillary Clinton just said, «I support the New York fracking ban,»» Fox said.

Pegula was a significant donor to Governor Cuomo's re-election campaign last year, even as it appeared his administration was moving closer to a permanent fracking ban.

«I am calling on Gov. Cuomo to reverse his ill - conceived fracking ban that infringes on constitutionally protected property rights.

The Green Party of New York (GPNY) and its recent gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins join the chorus of New Yorkers celebrating what appears to be an imminent fracking ban, arising from today's reports from Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens and Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker.

At various times in the years leading up to the final and comprehensive frack ban, state agencies had floated various trial balloons involving «pilot programs» and «test wells», at first with the potential to be widespread but later restricted to four economically - depressed Southern Tier counties.

... 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.

:» Being that I have long held deep concerns with the Governor's obsessive push for Common Core in our schools, safe fracking bans, money grabbing red light cameras throughout Suffolk County, awfully written gun laws and drastic increases to the state's Medicaid budget, which is now well over $ 1 billion per week and more than Texas, Illinois and Florida combined, I won't lose any sleep over this one.»

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.

Last month the legislature scheduled a public hearing (for April 17) on a proposed countywide fracking ban.

The protest came a few hours after the state's highest court upheld fracking bans enacted by two towns in upstate New York.

ALBANY — A proposal to use gelled propane instead of water in fracking has led to a rare bit of agreement between some environmental groups in New York and the natural gas industry: They agree it could be exempt from the state's current fracking ban.

The Cuomo administration's fracking ban centered on the risks hydraulic fracturing posed to drinking water supplies.

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Like in Dallas, TX which recently passed a measure prohibiting oil and gas wells within 1,500 feet of homes, a de facto fracking ban, and Los Angeles, which approved a moratorium on fracking until the impacts of the practice can be more thoroughly studied.

Today's victory confirms that each of these towns is on firm legal ground,» said Helen Slottje, an Ithaca - based attorney whose legal research inspired New York's local fracking ban groundswell and who was honored with the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Unfortunately, New York continues to penalize itself in terms of jobs and economic growth with its 2014 self - imposed fracking ban.

Yet, the state's fracking ban remains.

Nova Scotia issued a two - year fracking ban in 2012 pending a report due to be released next year.

Sen. Richard Madeleno (D - 18), who supported the recently - passed statewide fracking ban, stated: «At long last, Governor Hogan supported our groundbreaking ban on fracking, but fracking infrastructure still threatens the drinking water of Maryland citizens.

As the review proceeded, a grassroots movement turned progressively more local, passing more than 100 municipal fracking bans or moratoriums.

In Albany last week, he called for a nationwide fracking ban and said he wants to close the Indian Point nuclear center.

It's unclear when the DEC will make a final determination on the proposal, but energy groups did not attack the state's fracking ban in court, as some had expected.

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But Mount Gambier mayor Alan Lee said the fracking ban was backed by an overwhelming number of people in the local community.

in the Southern Tier, money will flow to landowners who won't get to cash in on shale gas exploration royalties, thanks to Cuomo's fracking ban;

Some environmental advocates say there are too many loopholes in the state's fracking ban and that the Cuomo administration needs to close them.

A year later, we won a fracking ban in New York State, and Mayor de Blasio's voice on the issue really helped achieve that victory,» the missive reads.

The fracking ban was supported by a 57 to 23 percent margin, according to Siena College polls taken in the weeks after the ban.

ALBANY — The state is expected to weigh in by month's end on one of the biggest environmental actions Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced since his fracking ban with a long - delayed decision on the controversial proposed Constitution natural gas pipeline.

Maybe, but probably not, but if you get a higher minimum wage and paid family leave and free college and same - sex marriage and gun control and a fracking ban and the first reversal of harsh Rockefeller - era drug laws in four decades, who cares?

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.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

A year later, we won a fracking ban in New York State, and Mayor de Blasio's voice on the issue really helped achieve that victory.

On the same day as the fracking ban was made public, a state board appointed by Cuomo and legislative leaders announced the siting of three new gambling casinos in economically depressed upstate areas.

And when can we reverse Cuomo's fracking ban?

Ms. Teachout said she hoped Mr. Meeks would be open to changing his position, and said with grassroots outreach like that around New York's fracking ban, the deal could be stopped.