Energy and climateFinding
New York should lift its ban on natural gas fracking.
New York banned high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in 2014 and wrote the ban into state law in 2020. Lifting it would allow permits for fracking wells.
Kathy Hochul
We're not fracking, we're not burning coal, we're not going backwards
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