Wall Street Journal

Steve Plants’s oil wells produce fewer than five barrels a day. He has permanently closed some as a result of low prices.
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (Dow Jones)--Hundreds of people gathered as here Monday to debate the safety of a gas drilling method called hydraulic fracturing, with critics campaigning against the industry and urging federal regulators to halt the practice.