When Zephyr Teachout was asked Oct. 8 about a Capital New York story the previous morning that the Cuomo administration had delayed releasing a Federal study on fracking until it could edit out some of the more-damning conclusions, she responded less with outrage than the world-weariness of someone who’s gotten used to dealing with an incorrigible child.
“It’s classic Andrew Cuomo: interference before science,” she said regarding the story’s finding that a comparison of the initial report and the final version “reveals that some of the authors’ original descriptions of environmental and health risks associated with fracking were played down or removed” and that “a reference to risks associated with gas pipelines and underground storage” was fully deleted.
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