RFK Jr's campaign walks back promise to ban fracking following backlash

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FIRST ON FOX: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s presidential campaign is softening his promise last week to ban fracking, saying that he would instead support a 'phase out.'

RFK Jr. campaign manager Dennis Kucinich joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why he believes the DNC and the Biden campaign are one in the same and how his candidate is fighting to get his voice heard.walked back his promise to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, as part of his plan to combat plastic pollution.

"Mr. Kennedy recognizes that an immediate and total ban on fracking would devastate the US economy, and is therefore unrealistic," the campaign told Fox News Digital."He favors a gradual phase-out of the practice, starting with the removal of subsidies and a moratorium on new exploration." Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks at The Centre Theater on June 5 in Philadelphia.for years. It noted that Kennedy served in 2014 on a New York fracking committee assembled by former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo which concluded fracking was too expensive to compete in a free market without subsidies. , has been witness to the"devastation fracking waste has caused to families and communities.

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