Vice President Kamala Harris finally mentioned the climate law she has pointedly avoided on the campaign trail — to prove she won’t ban fracking.
“I have not banned fracking as vice president of the United States, and in fact, I was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, which opened new leases for fracking,” Harris said at Tuesday night’s debate with former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia.
“My position is that we have to invest in diverse sources of energy so we reduce our reliance on foreign oil,” she continued. “We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history because of an approach that recognizes that we cannot overrely on foreign oil.”
Harris was responding to Trump, who claimed that if she wins the election, “fracking in Pennsylvania will end on day one.”
