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Expected lawsuits don't follow NY fracking ban

Advocates on both sides of the years-long debate over natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale had assumed it would be the courts -- not the governor -- that ultimately decided fracking's fate in the Empire State. So far, they've been wrong. Jon Campbell / Albany Bureau

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Report Finds Thousands Of Petroleum Spill Sites Left Unchecked

The New York Public Interest Research Group and Toxics Targeting have released details regarding oil contamination by Exxon Mobil across the state, including a spill reported in the Port of Albany. Nick Reisman reports.

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More Powerful, Personalized and Persuasive Governor Cuomo Letter Excerpts In Support of Killing Dominion Pipeline and Adopting a Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Approval Moratorium

Governor Cuomo Please DENY All Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Approvals

Dear Governor Cuomo:

I am writing to respectfully request that you deny all fossil fuel infrastructure projects in New York State. As a physician who cares for patients who are struggling with life-threatening illnesses, many of which (cancer, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, etc) are impacted by environmental factors, it is clear to me that we must prioritize human health, and thus the safety of our environment, over all other concerns.

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Regulators: Dominion may begin pipeline expansion

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Dryden Town Board Meeting - 3/16/2017

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3/16/2017 Letter to Town of Dryden re: Dominion's Borger Compressor Station wetland variance request

Honorable Jason Leifer
Town of Dryden Supervisor
93 East Main Street
Dryden, NY 13053

Dear Supervisor Leifer:

I wrote to you on February 22, 2017 to request that you take urgent action to suspend or withdraw all Town of Dryden approvals required for the expansion of the Borger Compressor Station as part of the proposed Dominion New Market Pipeline Project.