{"id":105583,"date":"2025-02-23T17:41:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/kamala-harris-doesnt-need-to-backtrack-on-fracking\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T17:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:41:58","slug":"kamala-harris-doesnt-need-to-backtrack-on-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=105583","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Doesn\u2019t Need to Backtrack on Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"article-title-block_8f37aa17128c4fcb1cf0411a8cf1d833\" class=\"article-title \">\n<div class=\"article-title__container\">\n<div class=\"article-title__eyebrow\">\n                            <span class=\"article-title__labels\"><br \/>\n                                        <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/subject\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"article-title__label\"><br \/>\n                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/content\/studentnation\/\">StudentNation<\/a><br \/>\n                                        <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><br \/>\n                                    <span class=\"article-title__label-divider\"> \/ <\/span><br \/>\n                                                                            <span class=\"article-title__date\">September 12, 2024<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-the-nation-dek article-title__dek\">\n<p>In 2019, Harris said that there was \u201cno question\u201d that she would pursue a federal ban on fracking. In 2024, she\u2019s taken a different\u2014and unnecessary\u2014stance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad-block ad siderail-ad float-r-w-3 break-r-4\">\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"ad-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris-Fracking-Debate-793x500.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during the debate at the National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">(Win McNamee \/ Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"aside-block-block_9b94c8f11d06343d42037ca8e0ee6236\" class=\"aside-block  float-l-w-2\">\n    <span style=\"color: rgb(102 102 102\/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 \/ 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; background-color: rgb(255 255 255\/var(--tw-bg-opacity));\">This story was produced for StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism. 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Debating from Philadelphia, ABC\u2019s Linsey Davis and David Muir zeroed in on the candidates\u2019 views on immigration, abortion, inflation\u2014as well as fracking, a hot-button issue in Pennsylvania. Trump claimed that \u201cfracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one\u201d if Harris wins the election. \u201cShe has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hydraulic fracking, a method of extracting natural gas or oil from \u201ctight\u201d rocks, such as shale, involves blasting large quantities of water, chemicals and sand at high pressures in order to crack the rock and access fossil fuels. Campaigning for president in 2019 at a CNN town hall, Harris said that there was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/CNNPolitics\/status\/1169384141923606528\">no question<\/a>\u201d that she would pursue a federal ban on fracking.<\/p>\n<p>But by 2020, she\u2019d backtracked. As vice president, Harris even voted to increase leases for fracking as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. On the debate stage, Harris emphasized that she would continue this record as president: \u201cI made that very clear in 2020. I will not ban fracking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-dropcap\">In recent elections, climate change has become even more politicized, fueled by a perception that phasing out fossil fuel energy will derail the American economy and destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs. In 2024, fracking is at the center of this tension, along with the seemingly crucial economic role it plays in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania, the second=largest producer of natural gas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Pennsylvania\u2019s fracking takes place on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayjournal.com\/news\/policy\/fracking-yields-both-fears-funding-for-pennsylvania-public-lands\/article_851b2638-c9b6-11ed-bf5a-dffecd15d8fe.html\">private and state lands<\/a>\u2014not federal. \u201cFracking is almost entirely left to the states, even as far as the way that it\u2019s regulated,\u201d Colin Jerolmack, professor of environmental studies and sociology at New York University, said. \u201cIt\u2019s far more consequential who the governor of Pennsylvania is than who the president is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/first-year-pennsylvania-governor-josh-shapiro-forged-alliances-with-natural-gas-industry\/\">Josh Shapiro<\/a> has collaborated with the natural gas industry, repeatedly reversing his strong environmental record as attorney general. Alongside the state\u2019s Democratic senators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/pennsylvania\/lng-pause-biden-john-fetterman-bob-casey-pennsylvania-natural-gas-20240201.html\">John Fetterman and Bob Casey Jr.<\/a>, Shapiro opposed the Biden administration\u2019s pause on new approvals of liquified natural gas terminals, citing potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/298be845-8f7f-4a1e-80c1-bfe3b95f7866\">job loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"current-issue-block_22df6673d4252b8458405b1211f19e52\" class=\"current-issue  float-l-w-2\">\n<h4 class=\"current-issue__title\">\n                    Current Issue<br \/>\n            <\/h4>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/issue\/march-2025-issue\/\" class=\"current-issue__cover\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cover0325.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of March 2025 Issue\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mainstream media and political strategists alike have made it seem like even toying with the idea of a fracking phaseout is political suicide. But in actuality, fracking is far from an economic or political powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Polls have shown that many Pennsylvanians oppose fracking, or are\u2014at best\u2014split on the issue. A 2021 poll from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org\/dfp-poll\/\">Ohio River Valley Institute<\/a>, a sustainability think tank, found that only 31 percent of Pennsylvania voters support fracking. Meanwhile, 55 percent believe that fracking should end as soon as possible or be phased out over time. A 2024 poll from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreenaction.com\/documents\/pennsylvania-clean-energy-polling-memo.pdf\">Global Strategy Group<\/a> also found that 78 percent of Pennsylvanians are in support of significantly increasing use of clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the polls show that enough people support a ban or a slowdown, at least, of fracking, that you could stick to at least wanting to tightly regulate, if not ban, the industry, and not actually sacrifice that many votes, but they\u2019re not willing to,\u201d Jerolmack said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jerolmack, much of the ambivalence from voters comes from fracking\u2019s clear health and environmental harms. These concerns compelled climate activist Jessie Bluedorn to ask Harris a question about fracking at the CNN town hall in 2019, as she saw the industry seek to set up shop in communities around her grandparents\u2019 farm. \u201cFracking, specifically, was one of my first entry points into the larger climate and environmental movement, because I saw it impacting my extended family directly in western Pennsylvania,\u201d Bluedorn said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the Yale School of Public Health found that children living near fracking sites were <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yale.edu\/2022\/08\/17\/proximity-fracking-sites-associated-risk-childhood-cancer\">two to three times<\/a> more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that these children also had a higher risk of developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleghenyfront.org\/pitt-researchers-find-higher-risks-for-lymphoma-and-asthma-for-those-near-fracking-but-no-association-to-ewing-sarcoma\/\">lymphoma and asthma<\/a>. Southwestern Pennsylvania, where much fracking activity takes place, is known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthisland.org\/journal\/index.php\/articles\/entry\/cancer-cluster-controversy-in-pennsylvanias-gas-patch\/\">cancer hot spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cta-block_b6974c2a1baab7e221edceab3391d053\" class=\"cta float-l-w-2\">\n<p>But Jerolmack also emphasizes that fracking\u2019s economic effects are a cause for concern: The economic prosperity the industry promised has simply not been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe middle of Pennsylvania, where most fracking is occurring, historically a lot of coal mining happened there,\u201d Jerolmack said. \u201cThose were the glory days. Coal provided more jobs than have been there since. And so there\u2019s always been this nostalgia and this hope that somehow we can bring that back. In the past 50 years\u2014especially since manufacturing declined\u2014the population has declined and the economy has declined.\u201d It was under this backdrop that the fracking boom of the mid-2000s arose, fueled by technological innovations that finally allowed industry to access the Marcellus Shale Formation\u2014the largest deposit of methane gas in the US, whose largest portion lies in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Fracking is why the United States now produces more natural gas and oil than ever before. Big Oil would like to say that this boom in production has translated into hundreds of thousands of jobs, positioning fracking as \u201cfundamental to the health and strength of Pennsylvania\u2019s economy.\u201d A 2023 economic impact analysis commissioned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/marcelluscoalition.org\/2023\/09\/27\/new-study-natural-gas-generates-billions-for-pa-s-economy-supports-120k-jobs-boosts-critical-tax-revenues\/\">Marcellus Shale Coalition<\/a>, which helps produce natural gas from the Appalachian Basin, found that natural gas supports around 123,000 jobs across Pennsylvania, and in 2022, brought in $41 billion to the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to environmental advocacy group PennFuture, these numbers are highly inflated. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennfuture.org\/Blog-Item-Setting-the-Record-Straight-About-Fracking-in-Pennsylvania\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> disputes the industry\u2019s claims, finding in 2020 that fracking actually employed about 24,000 people and contributed $583 million to Pennsylvania\u2019s annual economy. In 2023, the US Energy Information Administration estimated that the industry\u2019s employment levels had fallen to about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/2024\/08\/20\/fracking-industry-job-claims\">20,000 direct and indirect jobs<\/a>\u2014about 0.3 percent of the state\u2019s total jobs.<\/p>\n<section aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad fullwidth-ad contained row position-relative ad-block alignfull \">\n            <!--Ad policy starts here--><br \/>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\" class=\"mid-ad-policy\">Ad Policy<\/a><br \/>\n                <!--Ad policy ends here--><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cEconomically, it\u2019s a fairly tiny part of Pennsylvania\u2019s economy,\u201d Rob Altenburg, senior director for energy and climate at PennFuture, said. So where did the oil and gas industry get a figure in the hundreds of thousands? It all comes down to how far one is willing to stretch the definition of a \u201cfracking job.\u201d For fossil fuel advocates, this often means any job that is even mildly supported by Pennsylvania\u2019s natural gas industry\u2014for example, people who work in the transportation and service industries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere there some jobs created? Absolutely. Can you find people who got a well-paying job driving a truck for the industry, working on a drilling rig? Absolutely. Overall, were there more jobs created than if fracking didn\u2019t occur? No,\u201d Jerolmack said. In 2021, the Ohio River Valley Institute also found that though economic output of the industry was high, little of this income was invested back into local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Jerolmack says that while doing research on the fracking boom in Williamsport, Pennsylvania\u2014located in Lycoming County\u2014he saw a temporary influx of workers to build out pipelines that compelled the town to build new hotels and open new restaurants. But the population declined after the initial boom. Jerolmack says that Williamsport is now struggling with vacancy problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFracking is really expensive,\u201d Jerolmack said. \u201cIt often costs more to drill and sustain the well than the gas that comes out of it [is worth], but money keeps being pumped into it because petroleum companies have to answer quarterly to shareholders and part of what boosts the value of the company is to have proven reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<section id=\"popular-block_1e5056fb047d6d7d123022c15c1c6b0d\" class=\"popular-articles\">\n<div class=\"swiper\">\n<p><h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p>            <span class=\"swipe-msg\"><span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cswipe left below to view more authors\u201d<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<ol class=\"popular-articles__list\">\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"popular-articles__list-item swiper-slide\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Even as Big Oil continues to tout fracking\u2019s economic prowess, it has pulled out of the dying industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/anadarko-announces-sale-of-marcellus-shale-natural-gas-assets-300382759.html\">Anadarko Petroleum<\/a> liquidated its shale gas holdings in 2016, and three years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/11\/chevron-11-billion-writedown-could-hit-the-entire-market.html\">Chevron<\/a> announced that it would write down $11 billion of its shale gas assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have initiatives going on in the legislature and other places to subsidize both the supply and the demand side of it, which I\u2019m sure the industry is happy with,\u201d Alternburg said. \u201cI don\u2019t think the economics of that make nearly as much sense.\u201d A 2019 PennFuture investigation revealed that Pennsylvanians spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennfuture.org\/News-Buried-Out-of-Sight-PennFuture-Releases-New-Report-that-Shines-Light-on-Massive-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Doled-out-in-Pennsylvania\">$3.8 billion<\/a> in tax dollars subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, fracked gas is responsible for over 58 percent of Pennsylvanians\u2019 electricity. In this sense, the state does run on fracking. But Altenburg emphasizes that this is not a good thing, \u201cBy putting all our eggs in this basket, we\u2019re also seeing the impacts now of being over-reliant on gas. In one of the recent auctions of our grid operator, PJM, the capacity costs shot up more than 10 times, largely because gas is unreliable when we need it. In incidents like Winter Storm Elliott, most of the problem was forced outages with gas plants because they couldn\u2019t run when we needed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s United States Energy &amp; Employment Report found that <a href=\"https:\/\/climatepower.us\/news\/clean-energy-investments-are-revitalizing-pennsylvania-communities-trump-is-promising-to-crush-them\/\">51 percent<\/a> of Pennsylvania\u2019s energy jobs are actually in clean energy, while nationally, oil and gas jobs have been on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/oil-and-gas-jobs-decline-amid-record-breaking-production\/\">decline<\/a> even in the midst of historically high production. \u201cFor the longest time\u2014and this is dating back to the Industrial Revolution\u2014there has been this sense that if we want to create progress economically, we need to pollute,\u201d Altenburg added. \u201cWhat\u2019s changed, particularly in the last few years, is we now have the ability to have vibrant economic growth without growing pollution, by cutting pollution. But that hasn\u2019t sunk in yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-end-\" class=\"article-end \">\n<div class=\"article-end__authors\">\n<div class=\"article-end__author\">\n<h5 class=\"article-end__author-name\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/amber-x-chen\/\">Amber X. Chen<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/h5>\n<div class=\"article-end__author-bio\">\n<p>Amber X. Chen is a 2024 Puffin student writing fellow focusing on climate change for <em>The Nation<\/em>. She is a sophomore at UC Berkeley. Her writing has also appeared in <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>Atmos Magazine<\/em>, <em>Los Angeles Public Press<\/em>, <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>, the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, and <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Tag ID: thenation_incontent_2 --><\/p>\n<section class=\"collections collections--col-0\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"collections__title\">More from <span class=\"not-italic\">The Nation<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"collection__row\">\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/trump-journalism-climate-newsrooms\/\" aria-label=\"How Journalists Can Stand Up to Trump\u2019s Bluster\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"collections__card-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-275x173.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-810x510.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-340x215.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-168x106.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-382x240.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty-793x500.jpg 793w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-reporters-getty.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on February 2, 2025, as he returns to the White House from Florida.\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"collections__card-content\">\n<p class=\"dek\">\nNewsroom layoffs make it harder, but reporters must keep telling the truth about climate change.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"knockout \">\n<p>                                                                <a class=\"collections__author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/mark-hertsgaard\/\">Mark Hertsgaard<\/a>                                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collections__card   \">\n            <a class=\"collections__card-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/environment\/north-carolina-mutual-aid-hurricane-helene\/\" aria-label=\"The People in Charge Won\u2019t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe. 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In 2024, she\u2019s taken a different\u2014and unnecessary\u2014stance. Ad Policy &#13; Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during the debate at the National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024. 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