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February 8, 2013

How Long Before Fracking Spreads to Europe?

Brad Plumer, Washington Post


Spencer Pratt, Getty Images

Hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — has already transformed the U.S. economy. New and improved drilling techniques have enabled companies to extract oil and gas from once-inaccessible shale formations in Texas, North Dakota, and elsewhere. . .

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