Earlier today, TPM’s Carl Franzen flagged a study which reported that most Americans don’t know what hydraulic fracturing (aka ‘fracking’) is — the process of extracting oil and gas from rock by pumping highly pressured water and other liquids into the ground.
I wasn’t terribly surprised by that finding. But it reminded me of a very interesting finding from our recent annual TPM Reader Survey about our readers’ views on fracking. Read More
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Audio and transcript of Trayvon Martin’s father’s call to the police reporting him missing.
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