Seven Senate Democrats Oppose Fracking Ban in Symbolic Vote
On 2/5/21 at 10:56 AM EST
Seven Democrats voted with Republican senators to oppose a future federal fracking ban, sending a signal to President Joe Biden after he pushed through a raft of executive orders on environment and energy policy.
In a "vote-a-rama" session of the upper chamber, which voted on more than 800 amendments proposed for the resolution on budget reconciliation, a bipartisan group of lawmakers backed a block on federal agencies banning fracking in a 57-43 vote.
The amendment, put forward by Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), would have prohibited the Council on Environmental Quality and Environmental Protection Agency barring future fracking projects from going ahead.