ALBANY — The Environmental Protection Agency says New York regulators should set limits for radioactive materials in gas-drilling wastewater sent to public treatment plants before allowing any hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in the state. That’s one of the ...

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ALBANY — A coalition of groups on Tuesday delivered more than 12,000 comments expressing health and environmental concerns about a drilling process used to reach natural gas that’s being considered in New York. It was a last-minute deluge of opinion ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Gas-drilling opponents are lined up to tell state regulators what they think of proposed rules for natural gas development using hydraulic fracturing. They were rallying Wednesday in Manhattan, where the last of four public hearings on ...

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BINGHAMTON — About 100 people are listening to impassioned arguments about natural gas drilling at a hearing in Binghamton, the epicenter of expected development in New York of the Marcellus Shale formation. Local officials and residents are making three-minute statements about hydraulic fracturing.

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ALBANY — With New York poised to begin public hearings on proposed gas drilling rules, the industry says the regulations would be so restrictive that drillers would avoid the state, while environmental groups call the rules too lax. The state ...

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ALBANY — Gas-drilling opponents are praising the state’s environmental commissioner for extending an advisory panel’s review of hydraulic fracturing of gas wells in New York’s part of the Marcellus Shale formation. Joe Martens, who heads the Department of Environmental Conservation ...

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NIAGARA FALLS — The city that put Love Canal and Superfund in the environmental lexicon may get back into the business of dealing with toxic waste — this time willingly. With New York considering allowing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as part of a natural-gas boom ...

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Litigation over oil and natural gas industry techniques that include hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is underway across the country and expected to spread. Over the past few years, the use of fracking to drive natural gas out of shale rock ...

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The Research Institute of Siena College is the latest sponsor of a New York voter opinion poll on hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. The college, located in Loudonville, released its latest poll on the subject last week. The hydrofracking issue was included ...

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ITHACA — A Denver-based natural-gas company has sued the town of Dryden in central New York in an effort to strike down a recent zoning law prohibiting gas drilling there. Thomas West, an Albany attorney for Anschutz Exploration ...

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A plan to allow the controversial process of high volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract natural gas deposits from New York’s Marcellus Shale region moved one step closer to reality this week. The Department of Environmental Conservation ...

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The long anticipated final portion of New York State Department of Conservation’s report on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has been delayed due to Hurricane Irene. Agency officials cited the need to tend to disaster relief and recovery from flooding and fire this week.

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