Correction, Please!
Progressives Plot Death of the Fracking Boom
Item: The New York Times, in its January 28 print edition, indicates that the Democrats have a “conundrum”: Should they ban hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, or win the presidency in such states as Pennsylvania? In these places, says a subtitle, there is “Rust Belt Resistance to a Progressive Ideal.”
“Climate change,” continues the left-wing paper, “has consistently polled as one of the top issues for Democratic primary voters, propelling Senators Sanders and Warren leftward even as the specific politics of fracking have gotten little airing. While Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren push a nationwide fracking ban, other leading Democrats — Joseph R. Biden Jr., Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Michael R. Bloomberg — have held back, calling instead for tighter regulations, a ban on new oil and gas drilling leases on federal lands, and a transition away from natural gas over time. In critical pockets of the country, perhaps none more so than Pennsylvania, the issue of fracking could become vital in the general election, according to union leaders, Democratic politicians and Republican strategists.”
Item: An article for the news site Vox for January 15 presented the purported benefits of a fracking ban, as well as a few reasons against such action. The piece took note of Sanders’ call for a fracking ban and quoted him saying: “If we as a nation do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel ... the planet we are leaving our kids will be uninhabitable and unhealthy.”
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