"Air pollution is more of an Achilles' heel for drilling in the Northeast, he (John Hanger, the former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection) said last week, pointing to spikes in emissions that have followed natural gas development in other parts of the country."
ARTICLE HERE.
New York City’s clean water supply is currently being threatened by a method of natural gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing. Community organizations are racing to prevent the reckless endangerment of local ecosystems and communities -- the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland and a NYTimes series are raising public awareness, even in the face of the looming expiration date of the temporary moratorium preventing fracking in the state.
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