As an environmental group prepares to sue the state of Michigan over its anti-fracking effort, the state chamber of commerce said it beat the “fringe” effort. The Committee to Ban Fracking in Michigan came up short of the petitions needed to get a measure to ban hydraulic fracturing in the state ballot in November. The group said it would challenge a state measure that limits the duration of petition drives to push the effort forward. “We are suing the state, and continuing the campaign for the 2018 ballot,” the group said in a statement. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders , who won for the Democrats in the Michigan primary, has vowed to ban the practice more commonly […]