I heard Biden broke his promise to Pennsylvania on day 1 by banning fracking is that rue?
A story claiming Biden will ban fracking was published by conservative news site Townhall, which simply explained that Biden would—as he said he would
during his campaign—deny permits for new fracking on federal land.
It’s an important difference because the majority of fracking takes place on private land, with only 12% of U.S. natural gas production and nearly a quarter of U.S. oil production coming from federal lands,
according to a 2020 study from the American Petroleum Institute, an energy industry group.
And the president does not even have the power to ban fracking nationally.
Biden had promised during the campaign trail that he would not enact a nationwide fracking ban—but created confusion by misstating his position during debates with
both Bernie Sanders in the primary, and later,
with Donald Trump, and later had to issue clarifications.
A misleading post from Donald Trump Jr. claims Biden will end fracking. That’s not happening anytime soon.
www.forbes.com
The state of fracking in 2019
Denying the new permits for new fracking on federal land Times the numbers above is still big bucks and which after the keystone cancelation, will now be going to iraq and the sauds.