N.J. fracking moratorium expires

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New Jersey’s one-year moratorium on the controversial technique of natural-gas extraction known as fracking expired Thursday with little fanfare. While energy industry officials maintain that the natural-gas deposits in the state’s northwest corner are too deep and uncertain to make hydraulic fracturing economically viable in the near term, environmentalists have lobbied heavily for continuing theread more

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