{"id":3202,"date":"2012-09-24T16:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2012-09-24T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:12:44","slug":"new-yorks-decision-to-take-time-for-a-public-health-review-of-hydraulic-fracturing-is-a-wise-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/09\/24\/new-yorks-decision-to-take-time-for-a-public-health-review-of-hydraulic-fracturing-is-a-wise-move\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s Decision To Take Time For A Public Health Review Of Hydraulic Fracturing Is A Wise Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week\u2019s announcement<\/a> that New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) has asked New York State Department of Health (NY DOH) to undertake a review of the work NY DEC has done to date on regulating high volume hydraulic fracturing is welcome news.\u00a0 Citizens across New York have raised legitimate questions about whether NY DEC is doing all that it can do to develop regulations that protect public health.\u00a0 Review by a qualified panel of public health experts, under the auspices of NY DOH, is a necessary step to answer these legitimate concerns.\u00a0 Getting the rules right in New York is critically important, so we believe that taking the time for a public health review is a wise move.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is critically important that this review be done well.\u00a0 The experts convened by NY DOH should be qualified, independent public health professionals.\u00a0 The scope of their review should be broad and the work that they do should be thorough.\u00a0 Science, not politics, should guide their work.\u00a0 Above all, NY DEC should stand ready to act on any recommendations that come from this review.\u00a0 EDF looks at this an opportunity to make NY DEC\u2019s good work to date better, and we hope NY DEC sees it that way too.<\/p>\n

EDF believes that New York\u2019s regulatory regime should include the development of a public health baseline across the communities where shale gas development would be likely to occur, coupled with a rigorous, on-going effort by NY DOH to track key public health metrics against this baseline over time.\u00a0 We believe this step is necessary to assure that regulations are working to protect public health, and provide the data necessary to fix them if they are not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No community should have to sacrifice public health or the quality of their environment for the sake of energy production.\u00a0 Nor should artificial deadlines cut short efforts to get the regulations right.\u00a0 New York Department of Environmental Conservation deserves praise for taking this necessary step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week\u2019s announcement that New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) has asked New York State Department of Health (NY DOH) to undertake a review of the work NY DEC has done to date on regulating high volume hydraulic fracturing is welcome news.\u00a0 Citizens across New York have raised legitimate questions about whether …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,9],"tags":[17768],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-gas","category-new-york","tag-fracking"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew York's Decision To Take Time For A Public Health Review Of Hydraulic Fracturing Is A Wise Move - Energy Exchange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/09\/24\/new-yorks-decision-to-take-time-for-a-public-health-review-of-hydraulic-fracturing-is-a-wise-move\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York's Decision To Take Time For A Public Health Review Of Hydraulic Fracturing Is A Wise Move - 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