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 ...

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 ...

About 100 advocates rallied and held a lobby day at the Capitol in support of legislation to ban drilling and fracking for natural gas using carbon dioxide (CO2). Currently, the state's fracking ...

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 ...

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 ...

A company launched last year is introducing a new fracking technique that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of water to extract gas from underground—and it hopes to do business in New York. But ...

Lawmakers layout housing priorities in NYS Budget “CO2 fracking is dangerous, dirty, and fundamentally counter to New York’s Climate Act,” said Food and Water Watch Northeast Region Director ...

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 ...

But in past interviews, Phillips has said using carbon dioxide rather than water for fracking could have environmental benefits. Hydraulic fracturing involves pumping huge volumes of water ...

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 ...

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 ...