The International Energy Agency has announced that America will displace Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer by 2020. So it’s time to take a look at federal regulations that could stand in the way.

America has reserves to be practically self-sufficient, according to the Paris-based IEA, but will environmental interests prevent hydrofracturing, the new technique being used to produce oil and natural gas?

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