Despite acknowledging climate change as a pressing issue, both presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, emphasized their commitment to fracking during Tuesday's debate. The candidates’ stances on fracking reveal potentially conflicting approaches to tackling the larger issue of climate change.
Politics is such a nasty game. While the two major US Presidential candidates had many topics about which to debate on Tuesday night, the climate crisis was the one most pressing on many of our minds. Unfortunately, it did not receive the attention it deserved. When the single question about climate was asked near the end of the debate, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agreed: fracking is here to stay.
Answers to questions during a debate do not necessarily outline a future president’s policies. However, we can garner clues from their general statements and histories to provide inferences as to how each might lead the US if elected. Let’s dig down on fracking as a way to understand their likely approach to dealing with larger climate issues when one of them assumes the executive office.
Rather unbelievably, when we think about it, fracking became a policy point underpinning assurances that Big Oil would remain prosperous in either of the two US Presidential candidates’ administrations.Fracking — or “hydraulic fracturing,” to use the more correct terminology — is the most common way to produce both oil and gas in the US.
Trump countered that Harris “will never allow fracking in Pennsylvania. If she won the election, fracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one.” Of course, what Trump failed to mention is that a president can’t “ban fracking” in Pennsylvania, as only an act of Congress will accomplish that.
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