North Dakota, Texas Send U.S. Oil Boom Skyrocketing

Climate Central: What a difference four years makes. The U.S. is in the middle of a huge oil and natural gas boom, with crude oil production heading skyward fast thanks to a drilling rush in two states -- Texas and North Dakota. Newly released Energy Information Administration data show just how fast that rise is occurring and why: Thanks to hydraulic fracturing drilling technology opening up vast deposits of crude beneath North Dakota and Texas, those states are almost solely responsible for the meteoric rise......

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