{"id":1703781,"date":"2022-10-20T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703781"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:50:41","slug":"fetterman-flip-flops-on-fracking-now-says-hes-always-supported-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-flip-flops-on-fracking-now-says-hes-always-supported-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Flip-Flops on Fracking, Now Says He\u2019s \u2018Always Supported\u2019 It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffetterman-flip-flops-on-fracking-now-says-hes-always-supported-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703781&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;I don\u2019t support fracking, at all, and I never have,&#8217; Fetterman said in 2018<\/p>\n<p>    John Fetterman \/ YouTube screenshot   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 October 18, 2022 5:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman last week said he has always been a supporter of the fracking industry, a statement which contradicts his past comments disavowing the practice, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/18\/politics\/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-fracking-support-kfile\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support fracking&#8221; Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tIRxtewucH4&#038;ab_channel=NBCNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in an NBC News interview last week. &#8220;I\u2019ve always supported it, as long as it\u2019s done environmentally sound and making sure that we\u2019re not contaminating our waterways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in 2018, Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gmH-aAU90ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the opposite in an interview with a YouTube channel uncovered by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t support fracking, at all, and I never have,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;I\u2019ve signed the no fossil fuels money pledge. I have never received a dime from any natural gas or oil company whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&#8217;s reversal of his position on fracking just weeks ahead of his competitive Senate race against Dr. Mehmet Oz could represent an effort to distance himself from the Democratic Party&#8217;s green platform as energy prices have reached record highs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman in 2016 criticized fracking in a Reddit comment, calling it a &#8220;stain&#8221; on Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not pro-fracking and have stated that if we did things right in this state, we wouldn\u2019t have fracking,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;The industry is a stain on our state and natural resources. \u2026 I signed the Food and Water Watch\u2019s pledge to end fracking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fetterman campaign told CNN the Democrat has not changed his position on fracking, saying &#8220;throughout his career John has stood up to politicians to fight for U.S. Steel\u2019s right to build fracking wells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has similarly changed its rhetoric on domestic oil production. While President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to end the &#8220;ability for the oil industry to continue to drill&#8221; and froze gas leases, a spokesman for the White House this month insisted the administration has worked to boost domestic drilling and become less reliant on foreign oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman last week said he has always been a supporter of the fracking industry, a statement which contradicts his past comments disavowing the practice, CNN reported on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe post Fetterman Flip-Flops on Fracking, Now Says He\u2019s \u2018Always Supported\u2019 It appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1703784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}