Wall Street Journal: Fracking supporters say it could set America on the road to energy independence and drastically change our economic prospects while helping address climate change.
Fracking--short for hydraulic fracturing--involves injecting fluids into the ground to access hard-to-reach reserves of oil and natural gas, including shale gas, which the U.S. has in vast abundance but hasn't been able to reach easily up to now.
Many advocates argue that the federal government should step in and regulate the practice...