Our shortsighted acceptance of fracking

This story was filed on February 22, 2013

It is true that America needs sustainable, clean, homegrown energy sources, but natural gas is not the answer [“The natural-gas boom,” editorial, Feb. 15]. Our elected leaders are being shortsighted in adopting a fossil fuel that will prove obsolete in just a couple of decades, when instead we should develop our green-energy infrastructure to facilitate the deployment of wind and solar power.

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