ALBANY (AP) — New York’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether municipalities can use local zoning laws to ban shale gas development within their borders using hydraulic fracturing. The seven-member Court of Appeals was scheduled to hear arguments in ...

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WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House is considering three energy bills aimed at speeding up drilling for oil and natural gas. One of the bills that are expected to win approval later Wednesday would restrict the Interior Department from enforcing proposed ...

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ALBANY — New York’s health commissioner says he won’t wait for completion of any of the pending gas drilling studies and plans a recommendation “in weeks” on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracturing. Health Commissioner Nirav Shah says Monday ...

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ALBANY — An unreleased state report leaked to media outlets says the Department of Environmental Conservation’s regulatory plan for gas drillers describes potential health impacts from fracking along with specific safety measures and it makes a separate health impact study ...

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The hillside vineyards of New York’s Finger Lakes region make money producing fine Rieslings and inviting tourists to sip white wine by the water’s edge. Now winery owners are worried about the prospect of a grittier kind of economic development: ...

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DIMOCK, Pa. — Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso’s house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, ...

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The future of hydrofracking operations in the state of New York is still undetermined, but the Department of Environmental Conservation believes there is already evidence of gas drilling chemical pollution in a New York waterway.  The DEC filed an administrative ...

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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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ALBANY — New York environmental regulators have formally issued proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells in the lucrative Marcellus Shale region of southern New York and scheduled four public hearings.

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ALBANY (AP) — State environmental officials are expected to report this week on potential drilling for natural gas with hydraulic fracturing, an issue that has pitted environmental groups against energy companies in a debate over profits and threats to drinking ...

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BINGHAMTON — Rep. Maurice Hinchey told a federal hearing Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate hydraulic fracturing, the natural gas extraction process that he said has contaminated water near drilling sites around the country.

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