Guest op-ed: Fracking by the numbers
New Yorkers continue to wait for the long-expected health study on fracking to be released. But does New York really need this study to decide its fate?
Scarcely a month goes by without some new incident.
Contamination of drinking water is one of the key threats posed by fracking. In reviewing state records, we found more than 1,000 documented cases where dirty drilling has contaminated drinking water sources. While such contamination can happen at several points in the fracking process, perhaps the greatest threat to our water comes from the toxic waste that fracking generates.