The Obama administration issued a new executive order Friday evening, a favorite time to release material while everyone is otherwise distracted or not paying attention. The Hill reports a unilateral move by the White House to establish a new working group intended to further regulate and control exploration and extraction of natural gas deposits using hydraulic "fracking": President Obama signed an executive order Friday establishing a high-level task force charged with coordinating federal oversight of domestic natural-gas development. The task force is charged with ensuring that rapidly growing efforts to tap vast natural-gas supplies in the country's shale formations, which require advanced drilling techniques including "fracking," are "safe and responsible." The task force is to be composed of "deputy-level representatives" from the Defense, Energy, Interior, and Commerce Departments as well as from the EPA and other federal agencies. It will be run out of the Domestic Policy Council and chaired by White House energy adviser Heather Zeichal. Ms. Zeichal came into the administration as Deputy Assistant to the President for....
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