The environmentalist movements latest target is fracking. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is the process of extracting shale gas from deposits underground. Natural gas releases less CO2 than oil into the environment. For this reason environmentalists concerned with global warming should be pleased to be moving away from oil and toward natural gas but instead they are trying to stop it state by state as well as on the federal level.
This is because their real goal is not about reducing carbon emissions but the radical change of getting people out of their cars and into public transportation. Not satisfied with incremental moves environmentalists want to rush the process of moving people out of the suburbs and into tiny apartments located in big cities in order to satisfy their unproven junk-science speculation that using natural sources of energy like oil and gas is bad for the earth.
Fracking started becoming prevalent in the U.S. about five years ago. The U.S. has plenty of natural gas reserves; the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates supplies will last for 230 years.