Lawmakers Clash Over Carbon Effects If U.S. Slows Oil & Gas Leasing

January 21, 2022
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are butting heads over whether scaling back U.S. oil and gas production is an effective way to curb global carbon emissions, with Republicans asserting the approach would merely shift production to dirtier foreign sources while Democrats counter it would in fact result in a necessary overall emissions cut. “It’s like the drug war,” argued Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, who Republicans invited to testify at a Jan. 20 hearing by the House...


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