Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has given the USA and world centuries of new petroleum supplies, lowered energy prices for manufacturers, motorists and consumers, and altered geopolitics for the Middle East, Russia and Venezuela. New natural gas supplies provide low-cost petrochemical feed stocks, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by fueling electrical generating plants--which you'd think would be good news for climate alarmists.
But naturally, those who inhabit environmentalism's loonier fringes have gone into overdrive. They used to support natural gas. However, now that they've shut down many American coal mines and coal-burning power plants, they're against it.