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As states up and down the eastern seaboard have raked in the thousands of private-sector jobs and millions upon millions of dollars in revenue that have come from tapping into the oil and gas resources trapped in the Marcellus Shale formation using the hydraulic-fracturing technique known as “fracking,” Maryland has conspicuously declined to get in [...]

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A fracking fracas.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection last week levied the largest fine in state history against an oil or gas company — more than $1 million in penalties against Chesapeake Energy, the second largest natural gas producer in the country, partly because the Department claims Chesapeake contaminated water supplies in Bradford County, Pa., and partly [...]

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