A Republican governor has nixed fracking in Maryland.

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By Emma Foehringer MerchantApr 5, 2017, 3:44 pm154 pts
$photo of A Republican governor has nixed fracking in Maryland. image$ On Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill that bans hydraulic fracturing in the state. Maryland follows in the footsteps of New York, which banned fracking through executive order in 2015, and Vermont, which adopted a bill banning fracking in 2012, even though it doesn’t have stores of natural gas or oil.…

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