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… Edward Paulino (212) 788-7348 City Council Enacts First Ban in the Nation on Oil and Natural Gas Waste Products CITY HALL—Today, New York City became the nation’s first municipality to ban the … Read More

… held a very successful hearing on Int 446 banning the discharge, disposal, sale or use of fracking waste in New York City. This bill should become law. We now need your help to increase the number … Read More

… natural gas using hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. This is true of high­volume fracking – which is banned in New York State – and … Read More

Despite the recent historic ban on high-volume fracking, New York still has a fracking waste problem. More than 510,000 tons and 23,000 barrels – and counting – of waste from oil … Read More

… Local Law “D” Albany – In the absence of a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) waste, this week, the Albany County Legislature unanimously passed Local Law “D” for 2014, … Read More

… County Legislature will vote on Local Law D for 2014, a bill to prohibit the introduction of waste associated with oil or natural gas extraction activities, including hydraulic fracturing … Read More

… Legal Intern The Clinton County legislature recently approved the State’s most rigorous fracking waste ban, which prohibits landfills and wastewater treatment plants from accepting fracking waste, … Read More

… moratorium on high-volume fracking, our landfills have received more than 300,000 tons of this waste from Pennsylvania, some of which makes its way into our wastewater treatment facilities. This … Read More

… Chemung, Schuyler, and Yates Counties. Please see: The Facts about New York and Fracking Waste. … Read More