Biden administration breaks promise to Pennsylvanians, refuses to stop fracking ban that harms working-class northeastern PA families 

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) president David Callahan blasted the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) for violating private property rights and ignoring sound science in a vote banning the critical American natural gas development technology of hydraulic fracturing.

“It may be a good day for those who seek higher energy prices for American consumers and a deeper dependence on foreign nations to fuel our economy, but this vote defies common sense, sound science, and is a grave blow to constitutionally protected private property rights,” said MSC president David Callahan.“The Commission’s blatant disregard for scientific evidence and bodies of independent research – including from the neighboring Susquehanna River Basin where continuous water quality and quantity monitors have shown no impact from shale development – further demonstrates the purely political nature of this action.

“We are extremely disappointed in Governor Wolf, who aligned with out-of-state interests to jam through a fracking ban that directly harms working-class Pennsylvania families. We were hopeful that President Biden would keep his vague commitment to not ban fracking, as he told Pennsylvania voters over and over. The Biden administration’s lack of action today, along with the president’s economically devastating anti-energy executive orders – which have already put tens of thousands of skilled union laborers out of work – does absolutely nothing to help America,” added Callahan.

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