A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state’s decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be.  More »

The Independent Oil & Gas Association has filed a formal complaint asking New York’s lobbying board to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group that includes Yoko Ono and other A-List celebrities, is violating the state’s lobbying law.  More »

Spot gasoline in New York Harbor strengthened against futures after the Energy Information Administration reported the largest drop in East Coast stockpiles of the fuel since November.  More »

New York’s health commissioner says he won’t wait for completion of any of the pending gas drilling studies and plans a recommendation “in weeks” on whether the state should approve hydraulic fracturing.  More »

With New York entering the fifth year of review of the process known as hydraulic fracturing, growing calls to wait for the study could push a final decision back several more years, frustrating landowners and the natural gas industry.  More »

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo came as close as he ever has to approving fracking last month, laying out a limited drilling plan for as many as 40 gas wells before changing course to await the findings of a new study after discussions with environmentalist and former brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy Jr., several people familiar with his thinking told The Associated Press.  More »

Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against an upstate New York town, claiming it violated residents’ right to free speech by banning discussion of natural gas drilling at town board meetings.  More »

New York Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens endured a three-hour grilling by state officials on Monday, in a hearing room packed with hydraulic fracturing opponents. Martens was taken to task for an unreleased DEC assessment of the potential human health impacts of hydrofracking.  More »

Houston Chronicle columnist Loren Steffy finds that some contractors working for Chesapeake Energy in the Marcellus shale are having a hard time getting paid by the natural gas company.  More »

A Texas company has begun drilling a vertical well to explore the potential of the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation, joining about a dozen others probing the potentially lucrative rock beneath New York’s southern tier.  More »

The New York State comptroller on Tuesday piled on to a growing uproar from shareholders of Chesapeake Energy Corp., denouncing the company’s board of directors for “significant failings in its oversight responsibilities.”  More »

Natural gas production in New York’s part of the Marcellus Shale could bring up to 24,795 full time drilling-related jobs and more than 29,000 jobs in other parts of the economy, according to an environmental and economic impact study released today by the Department of Environmental Conservation.  More »