by Elizabeth Bierly
“Sandra Steingraber, an environmental activist and distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College, fought against underground drilling in Tompkins County and sparked one of the largest grassroots movements in New York State, which eventually led to a 2014 statewide ban of fracking.” Writing in Ithaca College’s student newspaper, the Ithacan, the author makes an urgent call for continued action inspired by local history. Read the article
“Here in the Finger Lakes, rising for climate means opposing a last-ditch plan to resuscitate the half-dead, coal-burning Cayuga Power Plant with fracked gas hauled in from Pennsylvania by convoys of trucks. Joining with people all around the planet, we’re here today to say, loudly, that it’s time to pull the plug on climate-wrecking fracked gas infrastructure projects, including this one.” Steingraber is quoted in No Fracked Gas Cayuga’s press release on the Rise for Climate event in her region. Read the article
by Sarah Skinner
“Sandra Steingraber, a local biologist who was a visiting scholar at Cornell from 1999 to 2003, also decried the ‘public health menace’ of the local Cayuga energy plant in an introductory endorsement, calling it a ‘dinosaur power plant that is [Cuomo’s] legacy.'” Steingraber is quoted in the Cornell Daily Sun. Read the article
by Kelsey O’Connor
“Our work is not done. We stopped fracking and now we need to stop the build out of fracking infrastructure. The people of the Finger Lakes will not allow the Cayuga Power Plant to be converted to a gas-operated plant.” Steingraber is quoted in the Ithaca Voice on the occasion of Cynthia Nixon’s visit to Ithaca. Read the article
by Capital Tonight Staff
“Speaking as a biologist, burning gas and burning coal, from a climate point of view, are equally villainous.” Steingraber is a guest on Spectrum News’ Capital Tonight, discussing the proposal to repurpose the Cayuga Power Plant to run on fracked gas. Watch the video
by Tim Williams
“Outrage is the word for it.” Steingraber is interviewed on WCNY’s Capitol Pressroom about the proposal to repurpose the coal plant on the shores of Cayuga Lake to burn fracked gas. Listen here
by Brendan J. Lyons
“‘A huge power plant is unnecessary, expensive and polluting,’ said Sandra Steingraber, a biologist and co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking. ‘It’s time to close this dangerous, uneconomic fossil-fuel dinosaur, and move forward with renewable energy.'” The Albany Times Union quotes Steingraber on the launch of the No Fracked Gas Cayuga campaign. Read the article
by Jessica Corbett
“Amid celebrations of AMLO’s vow to ban fracking, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a New York-based biologist and anti-fracking activist, noted the president-elect’s oil plans and urged him to listen to Mexico’s anti-pipeline activists who are ‘risking life and freedom’ in their fight against dirty energy.” Steingraber’s tweet in response to statements by the president-elect of Mexico is picked up by Common Dreams. Read the article
by Francesca Rheannon
“I think this is Carson at her finest in terms of being able to weave a spell with language and keep people turning the pages.” Writer’s Voice features a long interview with Steingraber, discussing The Library of America’s Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment by Rachel Carson. Listen or read here
by Barbara Bernstein
“This bridge metaphor, that somehow natural gas is the cleanest of this unholy trinity of fossils fuels — coal, oil and gas — was always part of an industry talking point.” Full-hour interview on fracking with Dr. Steingraber on Oregon’s KBOO Community Radio. Listen here