OCTOBER A majority of Americans now oppose fracking. 2016
2019
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MAY Washington state passes a ban on fracking.
JUNE Oregon passes a five-year moratorium on fracking.
WA
2017
Food & Water Watch marches with more than 1,000 activists and allies in Annapolis, MD in March 2017, calling on the legislature to ban fracking statewide.
APRIL Governor Hogan signs Maryland’s fracking ban into law.
FEBRUARY After years of opposition, develop- ers cancel their proposed Consti- tution pipeline, which would have carried fracked gas from Pennsylva- nia to New York and New England.
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“Unless you live in one of a handful of small towns in Garrett County, most households — including ours — rely on water wells. Seeing one’s home and community on a Texas oil & gas company’s development map forever changed our lives and our view of the world. From that moment, we were engaged and working to protect ourselves, our water, and everything that we valued about life in a rural community. Governor Andrew Cuomo had done what Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley would not. By banning fracking, New York showed us that responsible public officials could be counted on to heed their state’s findings on risks to public health. The victory in New York gave us the courage to fight for a moratorium, and ultimately,
FEBRUARY Ten years after passing a moratorium, the Delaware River Basin Commission permanently bans fracking in the Del- aware River Basin, covering parts of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
OCTOBER The New York DEC makes a landmark decision to deny permits for two gas- fired power plants: an NRG plant in Astoria, Queens and a Danskammer plant in Orange County.
2023
MAY New York passes the All-Elec- tric Building Act, banning gas hook-ups in new buildings.
for a ban on fracking in Maryland.“ Nadine Grabania
Founding member of Citizen Shale, a grassroots organization in Garrett and Allegany counties, MD
The Food & Water Watch NY team birddogs Governor Kathy Hochul, calling her to ban fracked gas in new buildings.
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Photo courtesy of Linda DuBois Carroll
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