Officials at the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) secretly colluded with gas industry lobbyists to write fracking regulations. Call on Governor Cuomo to restore the public’s trust by scrapping proposed regulations and beginning the environmental review process from square one.
Water Defense Updates
Governor Cuomo floated a plan to frack some of New York's most economically desperate communities, a grave environmental injustice that we must stop. Please call Governor Cuomo today, and every day, at 866-961-3208 and tell him that New York needs jobs, not flammable tap water and carcinogenic air emissions.
Last Saturday, hundreds of people rallied and marched in Erie, CO to demand that Encana Oil & Gas halt construction of fracked gas wells that are being built next to three local schools.
The oil and gas industry has already drilled 58 well pads within a 2-mile radius of Red Hawk Elementary School in Erie, CO, where my 6-year-old daughter attends school. Now Encana Oil & Gas has begun set up to drill eight more wells within 600 yards of Red Hawk, potentially putting my daughter's health at risk.
The Bureau of Land Management is about to sell 43,000 acres of Alabama's national forest to Big Oil & Gas. Here's what you can do to stop them.