Democratic Senate candidates from both ends of Pennsylvania accused the front-runner, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, of flip-flopping on energy issues in the first televised debate in one of the nation’s most-watched campaigns of the year.
Fetterman, who is far ahead in the polls, didn’t participate in the debate.
Representative Conor Lamb, who represents a western Pennsylvania district with some of the largest natural gas deposits in the country, said fracking not only provides jobs in a region decimated by the decline of the coal and steel industries, but can also help achieve climate goals by replacing dirtier coal.
