“Science confirms that gas is a climate killer.”
Roughly a thousand anti-fracking protesters rallied outside the officers of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in July of 2014. (Photo: Erik McGregor via CCAN/Flickr/cc)
After a frightening study from last week showed that industrial methane emissions have been “vastly underestimated,” a new projection Friday that the United States is on track to become the world’s leading exporter of liquefied natural gas within five years provoked warnings that the American fracking boom could “end hope for climate stability.”
“The time has come to end the madness by ending artificial economic support for the fossil fuel industry, and investing aggressively in truly clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar.”
—Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is primarily composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon…
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