WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday doubled down on his sudden support of hydraulic fracturing as a key to the nation’s energy future, a move that has thrilled supporters of “fracking” — and baffled environmentalists — in New York. “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly a hundred years,” Obama said in a speech in Las Vegas. “Developing it could power our cars, our homes and our factories in a cleaner and cheaper way. And experts believe it could support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade.”...
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