Sentences with phrase «gas drilling ban»
On Monday, Sanders told the anti-fracking base what it wanted to hear about the natural gas drilling ban.
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The state Appellate Division's Third Department has upheld a lower court ruling denying an East Rochester man's request that the state annul the de facto ban on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking
Cuomo vowed on Friday to «lead a citizen fleet» to stop oil and gas drilling off New York's coast as he proposed a new state law to ban the practice.
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.
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.
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 party backs a ban on the controversial natural - gas drilling process known as hydrofracking, a source of rare indecision for Cuomo.
Anti-fracking groups say they are using New York's stance to help convince other states, and even countries to ban the gas drilling process.
The group Environment Massachusetts is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to enact a ban on fracking even though geologists and the petroleum industry insist the chances are remote the controversial gas drilling technique — where water and chemicals are used to break rock — would ever be used in the Bay State.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned hydrofracking in 2014, but that hasn't brought an end to controversies over the natural - gas drilling technique.
Due to the inherent danger of un-natural gas drilling and the potentially massive impact on our local rural communities, we are calling on Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo to support a complete ban on drilling in low permeable stone deposits in New York State.
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.
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.
Cuomo's administration last week moved to ban hydrofracking following a lengthy health review of the natural gas drilling process on humans.
The governor's administration this week moved to ban hydrofracking in the state, but the poll found New Yorkers remain divided on the natural gas drilling issue.
At 11:30 a.m., New Yorkers Against Fracking hold a rally to celebrate the Cuomo administration's decision to ban the controversial natural gas drilling process, Empire State Plaza Concourse, Albany.
A ban on drilling for underground shale gas, otherwise known as fracking, has been lifted, the energy secretary has announced.
The Green party candidate wants to ban the gas drilling process in New York, while Cuomo is so far undecided.
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.
Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo area Republican, is not advocating for a ban, but he says he «shares many of the concerns» about the gas drilling process.
Gov. Cuomo vowed on Friday to «lead a citizen fleet» to stop oil and gas drilling off New York's coast as he proposed a new state law to ban the practice.
Anti fracking advocates rallied in Albany to try to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process in New York.
Anti-fracking groups say they are using New York's stance to help convince other states — and even countries — to also ban the gas drilling process.
The coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking delivered boxes containing 200,000 signatures to Governor Cuomo's offices that they say are from state residents who want the gas drilling process banned.
Yesterday it was widely reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has agreed to ban fracking after a state environmental review found that the gas drilling method can not be employed without unacceptable risk to public health and the environment.
COOPERSTOWN — Taking his campaign for governor to the heartland of New York's home - rule movement, Howie Hawkins on Wednesday eagerly pointed out that he is the only candidate in the race to favor a statewide ban on natural gas drilling....
Marshall says she and other advocates have learned, through the fracking fight, where years of protests eventually led Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process, that applying political pressure can work.
In this phone call, the Skeloses lament Cuomo's ban on fracking because they had hoped that the younger Skelos could profit from the gas drilling process.
A natural - gas drilling opponent violated a court order banning her from drillers» work sites and access roads but will not be punished, a judge ruled Wednesday.
He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.
Anti-fracking advocates rallied in Albany to try to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process in New York.
«There's been a movement in New York to have towns ban oil and gas drilling or pass a moratorium and many, many towns that frankly are not even in the oil and gas play have been passing these bans,» says Kurkoski.
(Cooperstown, New York)-- Lou Allstadt, as a former Executive Vice President of Mobil Oil Corporation, is an authority on gas and oil drilling and has become a central figure in the movement to ban fracking in New York state.
That news came less than two hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state officials announced they would seek to ban hydrofracking, gas drilling that some had hoped would jumpstart the Southern Tier's economy.
The plans don't ban oil and gas drilling, but restrict them in certain areas that have been identified as critical to the sage grouse.
For example, she said, attending last year's rally helped encourage her to work in her state to support petitions to ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gas.
March 31, 2010 • President Obama's reversal of a ban on drilling off most U.S. shores could put new oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.
The central tension in the story surrounds a planned vote by the town that would ban or allow gas drilling.
11:15 p.m. Updated below As I promised in an earlier post on transparency and conflicts of interest in the fight over natural gas drilling, here's my piece on the importance of peer review in gauging the merits of research findings wielded by the «ban» or «bonanza» factions in this continuing battle.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today the United States and Canada issued a joint statement banning oil and natural gas drilling in the majority of the Arctic's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
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They are used to concoct and justify energy and economic policies, ranging from delays and bans on oil and gas leasing and drilling, to the war on coal mining and use, and diehard opposition to hydraulic fracturing and the Keystone XL pipeline.
He voted against protecting voting rights, against increasing the minimum wage, against unemployment benefits, and in support of lifting a ban on oil and gas drilling off the New Jersey coast.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP)-- New Jersey is prepared to thwart President Trump's plan for offshore oil and gas drilling by enacting a ban on such activ...
We look forward to the Scottish Government acting swiftly to ban shale gas fracking and coalbed methane drilling once it has finished its review.
The reported plan would presumably offer natural gas drilling permits to gas extraction companies in the «southwest New York region — primarily Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga Counties — drilling would be permitted only in towns that agree to it and would be banned in Catskill Park, aquifers and nationally designated historic districts.»
Following in the footsteps of tiny Licking Township in taking action against fracking when the state of Pennsylvania won't, Pittsburgh has banned corporations drilling for natural gas within the city limits.
Drafted with the help of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which also helped draft the bill in Licking Township, goes beyond just banning natural gas drilling, it takes some very important steps towards reigning in the legal rights of corporations more broadly.
The President issued an order on Tuesday, Dec. 20, that effectively bans offshore drilling of oil and gas in a large portion of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.