New York State’s Fracking Ban Hailed ‘Biggest Fracking Victory Ever’
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New York State’s Fracking Ban Hailed ‘Biggest Fracking Victory Ever’

ByKyle W. Bell

It’s official. New York state will ban fracking. After years of lobbying and aggressive public protest by state residents to make permanent a short-term moratorium on the controversial oil and gas drilling practice, Gov. Andrew Cuomo cited harm to public health as the key reason for the decision to announce an all-out ban. “The potential…

Study: Ohio Earthquakes Connected to Fracking

Study: Ohio Earthquakes Connected to Fracking

ByKyle W. Bell

Fracking triggered hundreds of small earthquakes along a previously unmapped fault in eastern Ohio late last year, according to a new study to be published in the journal Seismological Research Letters. Looking at data from National Science Foundation seismographs located near fracking sites, scientists from Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc. (ISTI) and the Ohio Department of…