Clips of her past remarks are appearing in campaign ads in the battleground state of Pennsylvania — a prolific natural gas producer.
  • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeEnglish
    285·
    2 months ago

    That’s because the President can’t ban it if they wanted to. From this very article:

    While there are several ways Harris, if elected president, could halt fracking on federal lands using executive power, she wouldn’t be able to unilaterally ban it on private land. Under a 2005 law, the Environmental Protection Agency has almost no regulatory power over fracking. Changing that would require an act of Congress.

    • gila@lemm.eeEnglish
      94·
      2 months ago

      There’s little reason to change your stance then, other than to virtue-signal to the right