by Valerie Richardson
Washington Times
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden insisted Monday that he would not ban fracking as president, seeking to reassure pivotal swing-state voters benefiting from the oil-and-gas boom fueled by hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania.
“I am not banning fracking,” Mr. Biden said in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “Let me say that again. I am not banning fracking, no matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”
President Trump has taken aim at Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion green-energy plan, telling voters that the former vice president was “no friend of Pennsylvania” at a campaign stop two weeks ago in Scranton, Mr. Biden’s hometown…
Steve Milloy, a member of the Trump EPA transition team, said he was skeptical of Mr. Biden’s pledge, given that similar promises were made during the Obama presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
“We saw this in the Obama administration as well,” said Mr. Milloy. “Although [President] Obama said they would not ban coal plants, they did. Then Obama and Biden waged a war against coal using every tool of the federal government, which resulted in the destruction of 94% of the market value of the coal industry.”
