Natural Gas Is Not Clean At All

Data for Progress published a national poll about clean energy: 50 percent of likely voters believe natural gas is a form of clean energy. This is not true at all. Natural gas is primarily methane (CH₄), a potent greenhouse gas that traps roughly 80 times more heat than CO₂ over 20 years. Methane escapes into the atmosphere at every stage of the supply chain—during drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), processing, and via millions of miles of pipelines. However, the mistake allows Americans to believe a widely used source of energy is green