March 20

Both sides agree on tough new fracking standards

Environmentalists and industry set up stringent, but voluntary, guidelines for gas and oil drillers.

By KEVIN BEGOS The Associated Press

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Protesters rally against the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, last June at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. In New York, there is a fracking moratorium in effect until a health study is completed.

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A drilling rig is set up near a barn in Springville, Pa., to tap gas from the giant Marcellus Shale gas field. The overview project will cover Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio – where a frenzy of drilling is under way – as well as New York and other states in the East that have put a hold on new drilling.

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