Fracking

Governor Hochul signed legislation that will expand on New York's 2014 prohibition of high-volume hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas.

Expansion of New York's fracking ban to include liquid carbon dioxide injection method receives strong support from State Senator Lea Webb.

The company remains prohibited from drilling inside the 9-square-mile moratorium area itself.

Environmentalists in upstate New York are calling for a ban on natural gas extraction operations with a technique that would use carbon dioxide.

Governor Hochul is on a mission to kick fossil fuels to the curb and introduce New Yorkers to heat pumps.

The Delaware River Basin Commission says it will vote on a permanent fracking ban at a public meeting over ZOOM on February 25.

More than 500 residents of the Southern Tier protested the governor’s decision to ban fracking in New York State, Monday night in Binghamton. Landowners are unhappy with the ban believing fracking will improve the area’s economy. Although the decision has been made, The Joint Landowners Coalition said they will be looking to federal politicians and others to help them decide what do do after the e

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Major oil and natural gas industry groups in Pennsylvania are backing efforts to change the state's endangered and threatened species laws, despite objections from some sportsmen's and environmental groups.

New York State’s court of appeals will hear arguments in the case of an anti-hydrofracking law passed two years ago in the towns of Middlefield in Otsego County and Dryden in Tompkins County.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of natural gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, plan to put on a show for President Obama when his tour bus rolls into Binghamton.