{"id":9055,"date":"2014-12-17T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2014-12-17T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:59:13","slug":"not-so-frackin-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/12\/17\/not-so-frackin-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Not So Frackin&#8217; Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/ny_environmental_commissioner_i_will_ban_fracking_in_new_york.html#incart_river\">this is a pleasant surprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Albany, N.Y. &#8212; New York state&#8217;s environmental commissioner said today he will ban fracking in New York.<\/p>\n<p>DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens said a five-year study by DEC on fracking will be released next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will then issue a legally binding findings statement prohibiting (fracking) in New York state at this time,&#8221; Martens said at Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s year-end cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Martens made his announcement after a detailed presentation by state health commissioner Howard Zucker, who concluded that he would not allow his family to drink tap water in an area where fracking occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot support (fracking) in the great state of New York,&#8221; Zucker said.<\/p>\n<p>Zucker said studies showed harmful health effects from fracking, and there were not enough long-term studies to show the effects over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fracking banned in NY and the beginning of normalization of relations with Cuba? Merry Christmas, Wingnuts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Albany, N.Y. &#8212; New York state&#8217;s environmental commissioner said today he will ban fracking in New York. DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens said a five-year study by DEC on fracking will be released next year. &#8220;I will then issue a legally binding findings statement prohibiting (fracking) in New York state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}