USA Today: After environmentalists, lawmakers and the oil industry got together last year to draft Illinois' first regulations for hydraulic fracturing, the rest was supposed to be easy.
The unusual collaboration was praised as a potential model for other states and a rare example of political foes finding common ground on a complex issue.
But six months after the regulations were signed into law, the spirit of cooperation is fraying: Environmentalists worry that state regulators are weakening the rules...