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Cuomo Rumored To Lift New York State Fracking Ban | “The Cuomo administration is expected to lift what has been, in effect, a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technology used to extract natural gas from shale,” the New York Times reports. Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for the governor, told the Times it was “baseless speculation and premature” to say the state’s current moratorium on hydrofracking would be lifted.