Feds take steps to block anti-fracking activists

Published May 18, 2016 11:42pm ET



Federal regulators unanimously approved a plan Wednesday to use the Internet to block anti-fracking activists from disrupting their Thursday public meeting in Washington.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted to hold its monthly public meeting via webcast only, after environmentalists launched a week-long campaign targeting the agency’s headquarters as well as the homes of all four of its commissioners to protest shale development and fracking.

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