as companies extract gas and ship it across the country. Although the gas industry says it is working to curb its methane pollution, leading scientists say the world must rapidly phase out all fossil fuels to avert the worst consequences of climate change.“We have to continue to be very aggressive in reducing methane,” Ryan said. “There’s no question about it. And I don’t think anyone denies that.
A major reason for this trend dates to 1935, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration, a New Deal program aimed at bringing electricity to rural areas, said Daniel Tait, a research and communications manager at the Energy and Policy Institute.“I don’t think anybody — even FDR or proponents of a New Deal back in the 1930s — could have foreseen what we see today,” Tait said. “It was really just about the provision of basic services.
The trend of targeting gas supplies is deeply troubling to many major utilities, which are watching as some blue states follow the lead of localities that have banned gas. Last year, Washington became the first state in the country to mandate that newly constructed buildings be outfitted with electric space heating and hot water systems.
In California, regulators voted in September to phase out the sale of new gas furnaces and water heaters beginning in 2030. And in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul this monthAdvertisement
Climate change is a money laundering hoax
Kind of gives the 'both parties take bribes from the fossil fuel industry' game away, doesn't it? Wild they're so nakedly reporting on what amounts to payoffs.
Forget gas, build modular nuclear reactors.