Analysts’ Report On Natural Gas Role Highlights Climate Policy Tensions

New research by high-profile energy analysts is finding increased global reliance on natural gas could pose a challenge to long-term decarbonization efforts even as it presents short-term benefits, highlighting the Biden administration’s ongoing struggles to determine what role gas should play in its broad climate agenda. The report , issued by the Atlantic Council and written by former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s Energy Futures Initiative, says natural gas will continue to play an important role in global markets in the...