• geekwithsoul@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    That’s because the President can’t ban it if they wanted to. From this very article:

    While there are several ways Harris, if elected president, could halt fracking on federal lands using executive power, she wouldn’t be able to unilaterally ban it on private land. Under a 2005 law, the Environmental Protection Agency has almost no regulatory power over fracking. Changing that would require an act of Congress.

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      2 months ago

      There’s little reason to change your stance then, other than to virtue-signal to the right