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By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 1:28 pm
Today, Adam Bosch over at the Times Herald-Record took a look at last-minute contributions to various local candidates running in Tuesday's election. He found that much of the eleventh-hour money is from gas-drilling companies.
The numbers show that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 - 11:28 am
IwanowiczAfter firing Pete Grannis, the former head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, last week, Governor David Paterson has a new man for the job: Peter Iwanowicz. According to a press release issued by the governor's office yesterday,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 - 3:04 pm
UPDATE: The day we published this post, PA governor Edward Rendell signed a moratorium on any further gas development in state forests. Wonder if he reads National Geographic.
Pennsylvania may own the trees in its state forests, but the state doesn't have... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 - 10:00 pm
GrannisPete Grannis, the head of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, was abruptly shown the door today by Governor David Paterson. Capitol Confidential has the scoop, and it's a doozy, with juicy inter-agency emails and lots of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 - 2:32 pm
A new mobile investigative outfit called After The Press, founded by Kingston resident Paul Joffe, is marching to a different drum than most of their media fellows. They're not trying to be objective. And they're not trying to beat other reporters to big... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 3:17 pm
A billionaire made some billions by selling his holdings in the Marcellus Shale this week. Forbes reported on Tuesday that Philip Anschutz, who owns Anschutz Energy Corporation, unloaded all 500,000 acres of prime natural gas hydro-fracturing territory... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 24, 2010 - 4:07 pm
Illustration and caption of gas drilling infrastructure from the DEC's draft "Strategic Plan for State Forest Management," August 27, 2010.
The giant report on state forest management released by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation didn'... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 23, 2010 - 9:59 am
In the New York Times yesterday (via Greenwire): Congressman Maurice Hinchey pressed the Obama administration, via its representative on the Delaware River Basin Commission, to halt Marcellus gas drilling in New York and Pennsylvania until his proposed $1... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 21, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Yesterday, the New York Times weighed in on fracking via its editorial pages. (This is not the first time it's done this.) Unsurprisingly, the paper called for a complete ban on any and all fracking in the NYC watershed region:
We have long believed that... Read more
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