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Potential Downside of Natural Gas
2014-06-03 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: CONVENTIONAL wisdom, strongly promoted by the natural gas industry, is that natural gas drives down American emissions of carbon dioxide, by substituting for carbon-rich coal. The climate stabilization plan announced by the Obama administration on Monday relies on that. But in other ways, cheap natural gas drives emissions up. Its a seesaw, said Michael W. Yackira, chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association of the investor-owned electric companies. Some of the factors are...
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