Fracking waste foes press state DEC
ALBANY — Opponents of natural gas fracking continue to press the state Department of Environmental Conservation over proposed new rules that would allow landfills in New York to continue accepting tons of such waste from neighboring Pennsylvania.
Since 2010, landfills in the western part of the state have taken more than 600,000 ton of such solid waste, with another 22,000 barrels of liquids from fracking wells across the border, according to a report issued by Environmental Advocates of New York.
Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan, and Assemblyman David Buchwald, a Democrat from Westchester County, said Friday that the figures show the need for their proposed law that would ban any imports of fracking waste.
“We need to do more, and our bill bans accepting such waste at landfills and water…
