Fracking opponents turn up the heat on Maryland lawmakers

Opponents of hydraulic fracturing will rally in Annapolis today to press lawmakers for a moratorium on the controversial drilling practice in the state.

They’re bringing out Lois Gibbs, one of the big names of the environmental movement, for an 11 a.m. rally on Lawyer’s Mall. Gibbs, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, led a grass roots effort to have the state of New York relocate residents living near the toxic Love Canal outside Buffalo in the late 1970s.

The…