With two weeks of the legislative session remaining, advocates are making a last-minute push to ban hydraulic-fracturing waste from coming into New York from neighboring states.
Despite the Cuomo administration’s December 2014 ban on fracking—a controversial practice in which liquid is injected at high pressure to release gas from rock formations—New York has received more than 600,000 tons of oil and gas waste associated with the practice from Pennsylvania, according to Liz Moran of Environmental Advocates of New York.
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