State Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk was joined Wednesday by opponents of the natural gas drilling technique known as high-volume hydraulic fracturing to announce she’ll introduce a bill to ban “the treatment, discharge, disposal, transportation or storage” of hydrofracking waste products in New York state.”
The legislation, which is so new it currently lacks an Assembly sponsor, is meant to wall off the Empire State from what fracking opponents describe as a steady stream coming over the border from Pennsylvania, where the technique has been used for several years in the gas-bearing Marcellus Shale region.
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