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  • The bill, titled the "Protecting American Energy Production Act," aims to prevent the President from declaring a ban on hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) unless Congress approves such a ban. It expresses the belief that individual states should have the primary responsibility for...

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    This bill says that the President can't stop a way of getting energy from the ground called "fracking" unless Congress gives the okay, and it thinks states should be in charge of fracking on their own lands.