The co-authors of a new University at Buffalo study on the environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling have released a study on recent hydrofracking in Pennsylvania.
Construction work is inching nearer for a replacement for the faded Central Park Plaza in North Buffalo, with the draft of a plan for environmental testing of a possible brownfield development.
Hydrofracking opponents gathered in downtown Buffalo today calling for campaign finance reform and fair elections. They say the natural gas industry uses campaign contributions in a bid to influence votes.
A package of bills that would tighten regulations surrounding the practice of hydrofracking for natural gas in New York was unveiled Friday by State Senator Mark Grisanti. Grisanti says his bills would better protect the environment should state officials eventually approve the practice.
The Niagara Falls Water Treatment Plant sits upstream from the city's famous waterfall. Some city residents feared treating fracking fluid would harm the natural attraction.
Niagara Falls has banned the treatment of fracking fluid. The move comes after the Niagara Falls Water Board was openly considering treating fracking fluid from wells in Pennsylvania and Ohio in order to boost the city’s finances.
The Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator appeared in the Town of Tonawanda Monday to announce a federal grant to study air pollution.
The threat of Asian carp entering the Great Lakes, including Lake Erie and possibly destroying a multi-million dollar fishery, may be impossible to stop.
Western New York Congresswoman Kathy Hochul says the federal Environmental Protection Agency will remove drums of toxic waste from a Superfund site in Le Roy by the end of this week.
