The US mid-term elections dealt several blows to the fracking industry. Voters in San Benito and Mendocino counties in California passed a bill that completely bans fracking in their communities. Similarly, voters in Denton, Texas—the town where fracking first began—also outlawed this polluting process of extracting natural gas.
Voters deal huge blows to fracking industry
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