{"id":127786,"date":"2014-07-03T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=127786"},"modified":"2014-07-03T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:21:46","slug":"court-rules-new-york-towns-can-ban-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/environmental-news\/court-rules-new-york-towns-can-ban-fracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rules That New York Towns Can Ban Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #232f4a;\">The ruling is a boon to the more than 170 municipalities in New York that have already passed bans or moratoriums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a precedent-setting case decided on June 30 by the New York Court of Appeals, local communities have triumphed over the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #b4463c;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\">fracking<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0industry. The\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #b4463c;\" href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/news\/press\/2014\/ny-communities-triumph-over-fracking-industry-in-precedent-setting-case\">court ruled<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0that the towns of\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #b4463c;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?s=dryden\">Dryden<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban heavy industry, including oil and gas production within municipal borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cToday the Court stood with the people of Dryden and the people of New York to protect their right to self determination. It is clear that people, not corporations, have the right to decide how their community develops,\u201d said Dryden Deputy Supervisor Jason Leifer. \u201cThis would not have been possible without the hard work of many of my friends and neighbors and our lawyers Deborah Goldberg of Earthjustice and Mahlon Perkins. Today\u2019s ruling shows all of America that a committed group of citizens and public officials can stand together against fearful odds and successfully defend their homes, their way of life and the environment against those who would harm them all in the name of profit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cThis decision by the Court of Appeals has settled the matter once and for all across New York State and has sent a firm message to the oil and gas industry,\u201d said Earthjustice Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg. \u201cFor too long the oil and gas industry has intimidated and abused people, expecting to get away with it. That behavior is finally coming back to haunt them, as communities across the country stand up and say \u2018no more.\u2019 Earthjustice is proud to have stood with, and fought on behalf of, one such community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/06\/30\/new-york-towns-ban-fracking\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling is a boon to the more than 170 municipalities in New York that have already passed bans or moratoriums. In a precedent-setting case decided on June 30 by the New York Court of Appeals, local communities have triumphed over the\u00a0fracking\u00a0industry. The\u00a0court ruled\u00a0that the towns of\u00a0Dryden\u00a0and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-environmental-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}