US Vice-President Kamala Harris recently stated in her first major interview as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate that she would not ban fracking, a shift from her previous stance during her 2020 presidential run. The upcoming election is seeing a heightened focus on fracking, a controversial practice involving the injection of water, sand, and chemicals underground to extract natural gas and oil. Fracking technology has significantly reduced shale oil extraction costs, potentially leading to lower energy bills for consumers. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the number of fracking wells in the US has seen a massive increase from…