Fox & Friends host pushes wildly inflated Pennsylvania fracking jobs estimate

The number Earhardt cited is also more than three times larger than the figure a Trump campaign ad cites. The ad falsely claims 120,000 jobs would be lost if Harris were elected, even though presidents cannot ban fracking on state and private lands, where the vast majority of fracking occurs.

As a local journalist pointed out in a fact check aimed at Trump’s fracking ad, the 120,000 figure refers to an industry study by the Marcellus Shale Coalition that combines direct jobs in the industry and “estimates for jobs that the authors claim … would not exist if not for oil and gas production.”

In reality, the journalist goes on to explain: