The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
U.S. Energy Information Administration maps show landscapes so densely veined by gas pipelines – more than 350,000 miles of them run through the country – that they look like smashed windshields. The methane madness has to stop.
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Shale Gas Bubble Looms, Aided by Wall Street
Two reports published this week conclude that the current fracking boom could lead to a "bubble burst" akin to the housing bubble burst of 2008.
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How Government Subsidized the Fracking of America
Decades of federal support for natural gas drilling -- through R&D, mapping techniques, cost-sharing programs and billions of dollars in tax credits -- helped businesses commercialize the hazardous fracking landscape we have today.
