Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday insisted “we’re not fracking” in New York to boost the energy supply — despite Vice President Kamala Harris saying she now favors such drilling for natural gas. “We’re ...

Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill Saturday that expands New York’s fracking ban to prohibit the use of carbon dioxide to extract oil and gas from rock. This adds to New York’s decade-old ban on ...

Drilling and fracking with carbon dioxide is now permanently banned Environmental, public health, and community leaders from across New York are thrilled that Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the ...

Some would say there is only one choice between energy or the environment. But energy and environmental interests are often not the archenemies people make them out to be. This has been the case with ...

Jill Hunkler is a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident who says her home was affected by fracking well unitization. automation When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in ...

ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas-drilling technique.

New York State lawmakers voted Wednesday to pass a bill prohibiting carbon dioxide fracking, expanding the state’s decade-old fracking ban. The bill—which amends the existing environmental ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to have it both ways: decrying captured science when it suits his current agenda, while ignoring it when it benefits his personal convictions. AP Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says ...

Hydraulic fracturing is safe for human health and the environment as long as proper safeguards are in place, the New York Department of Health concluded in a much-anticipated report. No Significant ...

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has been conducting such a study for months, and Cuomo is expected to base his decision on its assessment. Rural Areas Support Fracking “The ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

Environmentalists and gas drillers alike snapped to attention when the news alert went up earlier today: the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was ready to lift the state’s ...