Jon Campbell

Advocates on both sides of the years-long debate over natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale had assumed it would be the courts -- not the governor -- that ultimately decided fracking's fate in the Empire State. So far, they've been wrong. Jon Campbell / Albany Bureau

Supporters of the Constitution Pipeline rally Thursday in Binghamton.

ALBANY -- The investors behind the proposed Constitution Pipeline vowed Monday to fight a state agency's decision to deny them a crucial permit, accusing the state of "flagrant misstatements."

ALBANY – With one natural-gas pipeline effectively rejected and another pulled off the table last week, anti-pipeline activists are flexing their political muscle in New York.

New York Sen. Dean Skelos, left, and his son. Adam, arrive to court on Nov. 17.
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ALBANY -- A leading oil-and-gas trade group will let a key deadline pass without challenging New York's ban on large-scale hydraulic fracturing.

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ALBANY – A legal challenge to New York's ban on large-scale hydraulic fracturing has been hidden in plain site since May.

Attorney Deborah Goldberg of Earthjustice, and who represented the Town of Dryden, N.Y., against energy interests, said of any possible lawsuit against New York’s ban on fracking that, “My assessment of it is the state has done a good job of defending its decision.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. — When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration first said it would ban large-scale hydraulic fracturing, it was hailed as a victory for vocal environmentalists and fracking opponents and a stunning defeat for the natural-gas industry.

ALBANY – When Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration first said it would ban large-scale hydraulic fracturing, it was hailed as a victory for vocal environmentalists and fracking opponents and a stunning defeat for the natural-gas industry.