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Two New York Courts Uphold Local Bans on Hydraulic Fracturing and Other Oil and Natural Gas Operations
Two New York state trial courts recently upheld local zoning laws passed by towns in the Marcellus Shale region that would ban all oil and natural gas exploration, production, and storage within the town limits. Among the activities that are prohibited under the laws is high-volume hydraulic fracturing (“hydrofracking”) to extract natural gas, a technique that is currently the subject of proposed regulations and an environmental impact review by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (“DEC”). Read More ›