New Republic: Shame on you. Shame! The shout rang out from the audience as the platform committee for the Democratic National Convention voted in late June. The room in St. Louis, Missouri, was so quiet that the interruption was impossible to ignore. The chairman, Representative Elijah Cummings, asked the audience to settle down, and the committee completed its vote: 7-6. This years Democratic platform would not include a moratorium on fracking.
In the weeks after Hillary Clinton secured the partys presumptive...