Judge allows fracking rules to move ahead

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A federal court on Monday refused to halt the Obama administration’s fracking regulations that go into effect Tuesday.

The rules restrict the venting and flaring of natural gas and methane from oil and gas wells as part of the Obama administration’s broad climate agenda. Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas that many climate scientists blame for driving manmade climate change.

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