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ITHACA, N.Y. — A Denver-based natural- gas company has sued the town of Dryden in central New York in an effort to strike down a recent zoning law prohibiting gas drilling there. Thomas West, an Albany attorney for Anschutz Exploration, says the suit was filed Friday in state court in Ithaca.
More than a dozen municipalities in New York have enacted gas-drilling bans or restrictions amid controversy over hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Anschutz contends New York amended its environmental conservation law in 1981, giving the state power to regulate the oil-and-gas industry while confining local governments to regulations involving the industry’s use of roads.
