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 ...

Now, state Senate Democrats are advancing legislation to expand the state’s ban to include fracking with carbon dioxide. Speaking at the state Capitol on Wednesday, State Senate Majority Leader ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

First, she can sign the CO2 fracking ban, which closes a loophole in New York state’s ban on this dangerous form of gas drilling. Hochul can make it explicitly clear that New York doesn’t want ...