Climate for fracking

New York Daily News: Good news on the climate-change front: A shift from coal to natural gas by U.S. power plants -- made possible by the drilling technology known as fracking -- has cut the nation's planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions by 500 megatons a year. According to Foreign Policy magazine, that's roughly double the impact of all the climate-change agreements signed everywhere in the world over the past 20 years. Combined. What's more, complying with those treaties has added a whopping $250 billion to...

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