After Early Gallop, Albany Slows to Crawl in Making Decision on Gas Drilling
New York Times
Mireya Navarro, February 6, 2012

When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took office last year, his administration seemed to be in hurry-up mode as it decided whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, a controversial gas drilling process. State regulators kept to tight deadlines to produce for public review an environmental impact study and proposed drilling rules, and the state’s top environmental official said drilling permits could be granted as early as this year…..