May 11, 2023

Source: The Hill

Excerpt: 

Environmental groups charge that the oil and gas industry is using promises of a future “green” fossil fuel economy to boost the use of the fuels in the present.

The Biden administration is backing a broad expansion of U.S. gas exports and a buildout in the infrastructure needed to produce it.

That includes government approval of liquid natural gas plants and deepwater export terminals along the Gulf Coast, in South Florida and in New Jersey.

“We know that oil and gas will remain part of our energy mix for years to come,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told a leading oil industry event in March.

Even by midcentury “we’ll be using abated fossil fuels,” Granholm added, referring to fuels whose carbon cost has been lessened by some technological means.

Read more: Environmental advocates contend ‘green’ natural gas efforts fail to contain damaging leaks