Residents in Chester, Pennsylvania already live with toxic air pollution from one of the country’s largest garbage incinerators, a sewage treatment plant, oil refineries, and other heavy industry.
If you’ve got “natural” gas appliances in your home, the call really is coming from inside the house.
This weekend, the American Gas Association (AGA) is hosting an exclusive Executive Conference in Austin, Texas.
As leaders from around the world gathered in New York City last week to discuss energy choices that could make or break our collective response to the climate crisis.
Communities across the country wanting to transition to clean electricity consistently run into the same barrier: the “natural” gas industry’s powerful lobbying and political influence machine, led by the American Gas Association (AGA).
One of the largest methane monitoring companies in the United States is reportedly backing off “certification” programs that allow the oil and gas industry to market methane gas as clean, sustainable or “responsibly sourced.”
The fossil fuel industry has spent decades telling the public that “natural” gas is the “cleanest” fossil fuel.
Are you ready for a horror story?
The Department of Energy has declined to endorse a standard for “certified” or “responsibly sourced” methane gas following pressure from a large coalition of climate and environmental justice organizations.
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