I'm guessing something to do with the Red Scare. Partially, at least.

a lady once told me in an airplane flying over Germany and then England. See, our wheat and rye-fields are all really rectangular and squares with exact 90 percent angles, but British corn fields are all nicely rounded smoothly fitting into all the small hills and valleys and have always some sort of green hedges on their borders, so much more lovely and humane.

What she didn't know was that US cornfields are conspiratorial. I didn't tell her. My mouth was just too squared into a lockjaw.

So, definitely think about what kind of corn fields you wish for.
German:

British:

US:

Corn fields tell us everything about our national character, yes.

If so, will this ban stand up against the corporations and their 3 industry insider judges?
I'm pleased that Germany is taking climate change seriously. Didn't they also recently pass another bill that either helps them get off fossil fuels or something else?

I read this article on huffpo today and what the fracking industry has done to rural Pennsylvania would be criminal if we had a working justice department in this country, or if our regularatory agencies weren't in bed with the corporations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-fracking-water_us_576b7...
The article is heartbreaking to see what so many people are going through with not being able to use their water and that even if they can't use it, they are still paying $80/month for their water bills.
Isn't that what happened in Flint too? Even though the water is full of lead, people are still paying high water bills or being shut off.
The corporate coup is almost completed and the TPP will drive in the final nail.
Damn Obama and every congress member that voted for this treasonous bill that gives away our national sovereignty. How can this be legal for foreign companies to over rule our regulatory agencies even if they aren't working?

And I imagine what is happening in Penni's happening all over our country. I read an article about how the abandoned oil wells are leaking and that since so many oil companies have filed for bankruptcy, Texas is on the hook for cleaning up after the oil companies.
Privatize the profits and make the tax payers pay to clean up their messes.

Test drilling will still be allowed but only with the permission of the respective state government, officials said

In other words, they couldn't get a national ban because of political differences between the two legislative houses, so they compromised by passing the buck to the states.