Senator John Fetterman , a Pennsylvania Democrat, was confronted by NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Meet the Press on Sunday about Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ position on fracking.
During the presidential debate in Philadelphia earlier this month, Harris, the Democratic nominee, promised to not ban fracking if she was elected president. This is a shift in her position on the oil and gas extraction method from just a few years ago when she called for a fracking ban in 2019 during her run for president in the 2020 election.
Harris also sued the Barack Obama administration’s Interior Department in 2016 while she was California’s attorney general to prevent fracking activities in the state, saying at the time, “We must balance our energy needs with our longstanding commitment to protecting our natural resources and public health.”…