The gas industry has spent billions of dollars over decades selling the lie that their product is part of a clean energy future. We know the truth: So-called “natural” gas is the cause of climate change, not the solution – its total greenhouse gas pollution is worse than coal.
Methane is a super-polluting greenhouse gas – more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide. Methane levels in the atmosphere are at record levels, and the gas industry is a leading source.
Before it reaches your home, the gas system releases millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere. Irresponsible drillers deliberately vent it into the air at fracking wells. Companies have failed to maintain millions of miles of decrepit pipelines that cross the country. And gas leaks from furnaces and stoves in our homes and buildings, even when they’re turned off.
Methane pollution is worse now than ever, and fossil fuels such as gas and coal are to blame.
Cutting methane pollution from fossil fuels is one of the easiest, cheapest and most effective ways of slowing climate change. But the gas industry is doing everything it can to block common sense reforms and keep us dependent on their product.
