Nan Hayworth Watch Vanderhoef WatchGov. Cuomo has the chance to get it right. He must take all the time he needs to ensure fracking is not allowed to proceed until proven safe. The consequences of rushing ahead in New York — as we've seen around the country — are too grave to do otherwise.
Last December, we reported that Boston was the latest of 400 municipalities to “go digital”, making City Council records available online to increase efficiency and transparency while reducing costs to taxpayers. Baltimore is now joining the trend, as reported in the Baltimore Sun, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has launched OpenBaltimore, a site that give ordinary...
By FRITZ MAYER A group of environmentally conscious investors are applying pressure on some of the leading gas drilling companies to release more information about their hydraulic fracturing or fracking activities. Specifically, the investors want to know the companies’ plan for managing such things as water pollution, possible litigation and other risks that are...
Stephen Cleghorn is a farmer in Pennsylvania along the Marcellus Shale. In researching whether he should drill his land, he came up with a sobering discovery – there has been no study conducted yet confirming the practice is safe. The EPA study which gas companies most frequently cite actually applies to a method of...
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