Sentences with phrase «natural gas hydrofracking»

He banned natural gas hydrofracking about a month after the election, responding to environmental activism that Teachout harnessed in upstate areas.

With the moratorium on natural gas hydrofracking in New York State due to be ended soon, some prominent voices in opposition are surfacing.

ALBANY — The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking back proposed new gas drilling rules offered this month by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

- The governor said he still expects a report on the effects of natural gas hydrofracking from the Department of Health by year's end.

And he sat impassively at an open cabinet meeting as two of his appointees — acting health commissioner Howard Zucker and Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens — recommended that the state not allow natural gas hydrofracking, citing public health «red flags» and a lack of scientific data supporting its safety.

Aaron Price, a filmmaker and advocate for natural gas hydrofracking who is now advocating for secession to Pennsylvania, said he didn't need an economic survey to make clear to him that a Binghamton suburb that was «happy, healthy» in 1970s and»80s is «economically devastated and has lost its way.»

«It wouldn't surprise me if that's why they announced the no fracking in the morning on the assumption that the good news would be about the casino in the afternoon, and the two would offset,» Gural said, recalling Dec. 17, when state officials also said they would not permit natural gas hydrofracking.

The makers of petrochemicals used in natural gas hydrofracking like the proposed new gas drilling rules offered by the DEC..

Responding to other question, Cuomo said he doesn't believe a health impact study related to natural gas hydrofracking needs to be redone.

BOLTON LANDING — In a pitch for the endorsement of the state's largest business group, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino chided the state's top executives for failing to speak up as its economic climate has declined and promised that he would authorize natural gas hydrofracking and immediately repeal hundreds of state regulations if elected.

Astorino again promised to «expeditiously» approve natural gas hydrofracking, which he said would bring economic development in the billions while potential environmental effects were managed.

He gave a six - minute speech, which touched on the woes of upstate New York, which he said could find salvation if natural gas hydrofracking were permitted to move forward.

Astorino has been a frequent visitor over the course of his campaign, and says the state will move ahead with natural gas hydrofracking — a locally resonant issue which Cuomo has avoided through an unending environmental review — since taking office.

That December, after years of delay, Cuomo effectively banned natural gas hydrofracking.

As state chairman, he pulled a similar maneuver in 2011, when state committee members advanced contentious resolutions calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and a ban on natural gas hydrofracking.

She assailed Cuomo on issues such as campaign finance reform, tax cuts for corporations and the possibility of natural gas hydrofracking, which Cuomo later banned.

The Republican candidate has serious policy differences with Cuomo on education — Astorino supports vouchers — and allowing natural gas hydrofracking, but in interviews he has focused as much attention on Cuomo as on his own platform.

Trump also criticized Cuomo for not making a decision about whether or how to issue permits for natural gas hydrofracking, which Trump said would bring jobs to Upstate areas.

Having said he wants science to drive the decision on whether to open the state to natural gas hydrofracking, Gov. Andrew Cuomo got a telephone book - sized dose of science dropped on his desk Thursday by two health groups that want to keep out fracking.

In response, Cuomo's team pointed to the governor's record, including increasing the minimum wage, banning natural gas hydrofracking, passing strict gun control, capping local property tax increases, legalizing same - sex marriage and directing state investments in infrastructure like a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

In 2012, Long criticized Gillibrand's support of abortion rights and her opposition to natural gas hydrofracking.

The governor fielded a hodgepodge of questions on topics that included the Middle East (he offered sympathy to the family of James Foley) and his position on natural gas hydrofracking, which is stalled pending a long - delayed state review («There's nothing new,» Cuomo said).

This was an issue as local bans on natural gas hydrofracking and advocacy for and against casinos played out in smaller municipalities around the state.

Astorino, who is the favored standard - bearer of state G.O.P. leaders, cited several attack points that play well here, related to Cuomo's indecision about natural gas hydrofracking, Cuomo's tough gun control bill, and, even as the governor retreats from it, «Cuomo's Common Core.»

He banned natural gas hydrofracking and pushed for a $ 15 minimum wage, something he had previously belittled.

But he banned natural gas hydrofracking, which many (mostly Republican) upstate politicians touted as a potential economic boon.

Cuomo also responded to criticism that the state's twin decisions to ban natural gas hydrofracking and pass over casino applicants in the Southern Tier were a blow to residents of that economically challenged part of the state.

During a pre-election rally on Monday, Cuomo said he was unconcerned with his margins, and said issues — including staunch opposition by some to natural gas hydrofracking — were responsible for the cleavage.

Two years ago, the annual gathering of the state political committee was marked by fireworks as some of its liberal members pushed resolutions calling for a moratorium on natural gas hydrofracking and the extension of higher income taxes.

Cornell University Press also tapped newspaper reporter Tom Wilber to write a book on natural gas hydrofracking in the Southern Tier.

There were substantive clashes over tax policy, the Common Core education plan and natural gas hydrofracking.