NEW YORK—The city is making its presence known in the battle to keep hydraulic fracturing out of the state.

A new bill, expected to be introduced Wednesday, will effectively ban hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in New York City.

Council members Ben Kallos, Helen Rosenthal, and Costa Constantinides are sponsoring the bill to support the local municipalities in upstate New York that have successfully banned fracking in their towns. They hope that other municipalities will be encouraged to amend local laws as well.

“We are standing in solidarity with those towns in banning hydrofracking in our municipality in hopes that we can do this across the state and across the nation,” said Council member Kallos in a telephone interview.