It was the best of booms, it was the worst of bans. Separated by a single state line, two rural communities straddling the ...

Although the Health Department Report provided the basis for the state to continue its ban on HVHF, the Health Department is not the state agency charged with regulating (or prohibiting) HVHF, nor is ...

ALBANY - A federal lawsuit filed by a father and son who own more than 160 acres of property in Delaware County is seeking to overturn New York's ban on the extraction of natural gas through fracking.

When planning New York's energy strategy, nothing has divided the city's community quite like the possibility of controversial hydraulic fracturing - a technique that involves injecting up to 600 ...

Lawmakers are introducing legislation which would prohibit the use of carbon dioxide to extract gas and oil, broadening New York's ban on fracking operations in the state. Representative of various ...

The New York state Health Department said fracking for natural gas can’t be done safely, dooming prospects that Governor Andrew Cuomo will end a six-year moratorium. Acting Health Commissioner Howard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill McKibben, author, educator, and environmentalist, speaks during an antifracking rally at the Corning Preserve in Albany on ...

A federal lawsuit alleges New York's fracking ban violates the Fifth Amendment rights of a father and son who own land in Delaware County Bill McKibben, author, educator, and environmentalist, speaks ...