THE STATE OF THE FRACKING DEBATE: The Risk Aren't New, They're Well Known, And They Can Be Mitigated

Yoko Ono, Susan Sarandon and other celebrities recently toured a fracking site in Pennsylvania. They have been at the vanguard of an effort to keep fracking out of New York -- the practice has been banned since 2010. But the urgency of the issue in New York is belied by a larger the truth about the environmental dangers of fracking: we pretty much know what they are, and know how to deal with them. Quick recap: fracking involves pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and chemicals int...