That’s a huge increase from 2000 when fracking accounted for just a small percentage of the total, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
[image via U.S. Energy Information Administration]
If you’re curious to learn more about fracking and the controversy surrounding the procedure, I wrote a song about it for the investigative news site ProPublica a few years back with some friends of mine at NYU’s Studio 20 grad program: