03.22.12
:: Press Releases :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Dimock families and advocacy groups called today on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to compel the state of Pennsylvania to provide replacement water to the residents after the Environmental Protection Agency’s own preliminary water test results show their water was contaminated from nearby gas drilling. Controversy has surfaced over EPA Region 3’s initial pronouncements that the water poses no immediate health threat.
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03.12.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Thank you to the many New Yorkers that have shared your concerns regarding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with me. I am inspired by the passionate response I have seen in New York and around the country to protect our environment against irresponsible shale gas development.
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03.09.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Watershed Post
03.02.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Westchester.com
02.29.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Examiner
02.24.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
In response to today's ruling by Justice Donald F. Cerio, Jr. for the Otsego County Supreme Court, the New York Water Rangers released the following statement
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02.22.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
In response to the ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Phillip Rumsey, the New York Water Rangers released the following statement:
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02.17.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
![fracking_photos_graphic_JessicaRiehl-and-WVSORO_550](https://www.riverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fracking_photos_graphic_JessicaRiehl-and-WVSORO_550-240x87.jpg)
Photos (L to R): Jessica Riehl, WVSORO.org, Jessica Riehl
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has made it clear it intends to issue a finalized Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) this spring, which means that fracking could move forward under the state’s flawed proposal as early as this summer.
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02.15.12
:: Latest Developments :: Fracking/Gas Drilling
Last summer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed New York’s first-ever uniform water use management legislation, closing the loophole that long allowed high-volume water withdrawers to pump large amounts of water out of New York’s water bodies without regard for protections to natural resources and aquatic life.
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01.31.12
:: Rvk in the Press :: Peekskill Patch