Vice President Kamala Harris is again reversing course on her stance regarding hydraulic fracturing—a.k.a fracking—just two-and-a-half weeks before the 2024 presidential election. The Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, according to an environmental policy staffer on her campaign, now no longer supports the expansion of fracking leases in the United States—a rejection of a policy stance Harris herself has touted on the campaign trail.
“Just to be clear, Vice President Harris hasn’t said anything that the administration hasn’t already said. She is not promoting expansion,” the anonymous staffer said in an exchange with POLITICO. The Harris campaign policy advisor added: “She’s just said that they wouldn’t ban fracking and the fact that anyone could look up is that the IRA required leases, and that was not something she promoted.”
The National Pulse reported in late August that Harris—a long-time opponent of fracking and American energy independence—was misleading members of the corporate media regarding her stance on the fossil fuel extraction method. During a softball interview with CNN, Harris claimed she “made [it]t clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking.”
