Climate Central: As fracking catapults the United States to the top of the list of the world's largest crude oil and natural gas producers, climate scientists worry that the nation's booming fossil fuels production is growing too quickly with too little concern about its impact on climate change, possibly endangering America's efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. is likely to become the world's top producer of crude oil and natural gas by the end of 2013, producing more hydrocarbons than either...