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ITHACA — A gas pipeline running through Tompkins County has been approved for expansion, over what a local environmental firm calls serious concerns about pollution.

ITHACA — A local environmentalist is urging the community to tell Governor Cuomo to deny a key certification for a pipeline expansion project.

BINGHAMTON — State lawmakers are joining with activists from our local area to push Governor Cuomo to put a hold on fossil fuel development.

Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton will be joining Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan and Toxics Targeting President Walter Hang this afternoon at a news conference in regards to the state DEC’s gas and oil regulation.

Hang says the DEC Mineral Resources Annual report shows billions of gallons of untreated gas and oil brine wastewater was dumped into pits and streams across the state.

Walter Hang is president of Toxics Targeting. He says internal documents from the EPA reveal questions about regulation of fracking.

Toxics Targeting, Inc., president Walter Hang was interviewed on WHCU 870 AM on Monday, November 16, 2009. The interview appeared on the WHCU Morning Newswatch.