Posted on 02/12/2020 2:52:24 PM PST by karpov
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), along with Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) officially introduced a national fracking ban in the House.
The bill, announced at the end of last month, serves as a companion bill to the Senate legislation proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), one that Ocasio-Cortez helped draft. Both bills would ban fracking across the nation by 2025.
The laws would also prohibit fracking within 2,500 feet of homes and schools by February 2021. They also would provide a transition for working families in the fracking industry.
“Fracking is destroying our land and our water,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on Twitter. “It is wreaking havoc on our communities' health. We must do our job to protect our future from the harms caused by the fracking industry. That is why I am proud to introduce the Fracking Ban Act with @RepDarrenSoto today.”
Soto said in a statement that fracking poses a hazard to “our health, safety and environment.”
“If we want to transition from fossil fuel emissions as we work towards building a 100 percent clean economy, pulling back from fracking is a critical first step,” he said. “Failure to act will only make the crisis at hand even more detrimental for future generations of Americans.”
Sanders has vowed during his presidential campaign to eliminate fracking in the country if he wins in 2020.
American Petroleum Institute spokeswoman Bethany Aronhalt told The Hill in a statement last month that a ban could produce an increase in household energy costs.
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Totally insane....We need every source available. This is one of the cleanest.
And there are how many hydraulic fracturing wells in the Bronx?
$5 Diesel and I’m retiring.
Frack her! She’s so ignorant that I’m waiting for Boston University to publicy deny that she ever studied there.
Has She ever sponsored a successful bill?
It’s time to ban the Democrat Party.
To Hell with these lunatics.
With that mouth of hers, I’d be surprised if there’s any fracking going on.
Texas says, “Come and take it, you cow-eyed moron.” We should shut down all pipelines heading east.
You mean Westchester? I think that is where AOC grew up, not The Bronx.
Good. That will keep her occupied and out of trouble.
Ah yes.....reminds of the oil wars in Canada and the famous Alberta phrase....Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.
I’d like to ban fracking AOC.
(note the lack of punctuation)
Yeah that would be good.
In the meantime she and bernie are handing some states that we need to us on a silver platter.
Coal miners will know the fracking ban will be either right before or right after the coal ban.
And both of them are fracking idiots
How much money are they receiving from OPEC and Russia to end our energy independence?
Her district is the Bronx.
What happens in upstate NY or LI is none of her d@mn business.
This woman is truly STUPID. I guess that she read about the evils of fracking in her fifth grade Weekly Reader. When you know very little, you think that you are smart. We know better.
Marry me, Lexi. I can fix you.
You are correct. She grew up in Yorktown Heights where she went by Alex Ocasio. Likely trying to pass herself off as Italian.
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