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New York’s Fracking Ban Threatened by CO2 ‘Loophole,’ Environmentalists Say
A company launched last year is introducing a new fracking technique that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of water to extract gas from underground—and it hopes to do business in New York. But environmental advocates see the plans as an attempt to circumvent the state’s prohibition on fracking.
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Environmentalists’ 2024 Albany Agenda? Making Polluters Pay
Government officials estimate it will cost nearly $44 billion to fulfill the state’s climate law, which aims to stop powering the state with polluting fossil fuels and reduce 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050. Read the story.
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