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Fracking Support Plummets Among Americans
2014-11-13 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As more stories emerge about the dangers posed by the toxic fallout from the aggressive drilling process to communities near the operations, support for fracking tilts negative for the first time, with 41 percent favoring increased use of fracking and 47 percent opposing it. Thats a huge swing from 20 months ago. In Pews March 2013 poll 48 percent supported more fracking while only 38 percent opposed it. Support for fracking has dropped most steeply among women and people under 50, whose opinions...
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