Category: New York
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Gasland’s Impact on the Explosive Growth of the Anti-Fracking Movement
ECOWATCH — Three years later, anti-fracking activism has grown into a full-fledged national movement. Its members are diverse, ranging from homeowners displaced by the shale gas industry’s harmful activities, to farmers …
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Mark Ruffalo Honored at this Year’s Riverkeeper Fishermen’s Ball on April 16
RIVERKEEPER — The evening will feature award presentation by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and a special musical performance by Grammy award-winning artist Lyle Lovett as Riverkeeper and its supporters celebrate the power of the grassroots movement for clean water and sustainable energy …
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CallCuomo.com Campaign Launches to Protect New Yorkers’ Health and Safety from Fracking
NEW YORKERS AGAINST FRACKING — Governor Cuomo recently said that his health and environmental commissioners might make a decision on fracking before the science is in. We hope that he will wait for the science and listen to the majority of …
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Manhattan’s Methane Levels Show Natural Gas as Damaging to Climate as Other Fossil Fuels
DAMASCUS CITIZENS FOR SUSTAINABILITY — This report takes an innovative approach using actual measurements and an elegantly simple method that arrives at the conclusion that there is no advantage to natural gas over coal or oil. The authors developed a rapid assessment method based on …
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Campaign Kicks Off to Ban Fracking in Michigan
COMMITTEE TO BAN FRACKING IN MICHIGAN — In Michigan we have the constitutional power to write our own laws through a ballot initiative and put them before the voters. Other states threatened by fracking, such as New York and Pennsylvania, do not have this option …