New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is fulfilling a campaign pledge to oppose natural gas development in his state, challenging the DRBC and now upstate elected officials whose only sin is to disagree with him. The AG’s opposition to a resource used to heat 56% of New York homes seems to be an exercise in intimidation.

The New York State Attorney General’s office has done something remarkably cynical. It has joined the NRDC in a campaign of intimidation aimed at local officials who happen to disagree with the AG’s and NRDC’s positions on hydraulic fracturing and natural gas development.

We reported earlier on the NRDC effort to silence the voices of three tiny communities in Broome and Sullivan Counties using its multi-million dollar legal staff. Now, along comes Attorney General Eric Schneiderman employing the power of the state to engage in his own bullying efforts directed at some of the same towns, as well as others. Is it an abuse of power? You be the judge.

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