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A Federal Judge Just Struck Down Obama's Fracking Regulations
2016-06-26 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: A major push by the Obama administration to curb the environmental impacts of fracking suffered a severe blow Wednesday evening, when a federal judge in Wyoming ruled that the proposed regulations overstepped the government's authority. The decision could mean that President Barack Obama will leave office without delivering on one of environmentalists' biggest demands: Clamping down on air and water pollution from the chemicals used in fracking, a controversial oil and gas drilling technique that...
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