The former president accused his rival Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to put an end to fracking.
In the gas- and coal-rich Keystone State, former President Donald J. Trump’s latest rally in Johnstown on Aug. 30 lingered on energy policy.
He accused Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to put an end to fracking, which is opposed by the Sierra Club and some other environmental organizations.
“The people of Pennsylvania are smart. They’re not going to fall for it. … If you do not have fracking, you do not have a commonwealth,” Trump said.
He also accused Harris of having “surrendered our energy independence” and faulted her administration for closing the Keystone XL pipeline.
Harris’s position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to obtain oil came up during her Aug. 29 interview with CNN’s Dana Bash. She spoke to Bash alongside her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Bash pointed out that in 2019, Harris voiced support for a ban on fracking. Harris laid out that position during a climate-focused town hall on CNN with other Democratic presidential hopefuls, adding that she had worked to end the practice as California’s attorney general.
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