The industry’s push to get around our state’s fracking ban is to use CO2, which poses many of the same threats to our water, health, and climate. Assemblymember Anna Kelles said, “New York State ...

Drilling and fracking with carbon dioxide is now permanently banned Environmental, public health, and community leaders from across New York are thrilled that Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the ...

New York State lawmakers voted Wednesday to pass a bill prohibiting carbon dioxide fracking, expanding the state’s decade-old fracking ban. The bill—which amends the existing environmental ...

Kathy Hochul signed several long-awaited environmental bills into law: forcing polluters to pay for climate destruction, expanding the state’s fracking ban to prohibit a a new technique that uses ...

(WIVT/WBGH) – Governor Hochul recently signed a bill that bans a newer form of fracking that uses carbon dioxide. The bill passed the state legislature in March, and environmentalists say it ...

A bill to ban CO2 fracking has passed in both the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate, and now awaits approval on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk. The Assembly bill, sponsored by ...

Drilling for and transporting gas can lead to the leakage of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that warms the planet faster than carbon dioxide. For years, research has shown that fracking depletes ...

It also releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is 28 times more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than CO2. Fracking may also lead to earthquakes. The disposal of wastewater ...

Last month, Hochul piled on, signing legislation banning the use of carbon dioxide for fracking instead of water. “We’re not fracking . . . we’re not going backwards,” she said in September.

Fracking supporters have long touted its supposed ... cheaper natural gas replaced so much coal that it drove a larger reduction in U.S. CO2 emissions than replacing coal with emissions-free ...

Fracking has been blamed for leaking millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas that's more potent than carbon dioxide. Fracking is also associated with other airborne hydrocarbons that can ...

The process releases large amounts of methane, a gas with 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term. Beyond contributing to climate change, the fracking industry has also ...