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$Diversified Energy employees stand by natural gas well in Franklin Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 2024. Once a Democratic stronghold with a strong union presence, Washington County has voted Republican in every presidential election since 2008.<br /> Trump’s strong support for fracking has helped him here as it has across the Appalachia region, where a controversial shale gas boom since 2008 minted millionaires almost overnight and created rare, well-paying blue-collar jobs in an area undergoing deindustrialization.<br /> Harris’s past support for a fracking ban which she has reversed in her current presidential run has left many in Washington County skeptical. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)$

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AI could be giving natural gas a second lease on life

By Richard Lum