The tack is a contrast from 2020, when Democrats including Biden jockeyed with each other to propose sweeping plans for curtailing the long-term threat of global warming.
As the second largest producer of natural gas in the country, the sector employs over 72,000 Pennsylvanians. But environmentalists say more oversight is needed to better protect human health and mitigate climate damages.
Fetterman’s advocacy won him the endorsement from the union representing Edgar Thomson workers. But environmental groups say candidates can’t make promises to the climate movement while also supporting fracking jobs.
The politics of fracking and energy policy in a state that sits on the second biggest natural gas reserves in the country is more nuanced than absolutist positions might indicate.
