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Natural gas is doing far more than renewables to clean our air

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Published January 30, 2019 7:01pm ET
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Natural gas is doing far more than renewables to clean our air
Smoke rises from the chimneys of homes in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, as furnaces tried to keep up with the record breaking cold, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Minn. Xcel Energy says the extreme cold has caused some customers to lose natural gas service in central Minnesota and has the utility issuing an appeal to other customers to turn down their thermostats. | (Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via AP)

Carbon emissions from the power sector are now the lowest they have been since 1985.

It is amazing how fast carbon emissions from U.S. electricity production have decreased due to the major shift from coal to natural gas. And due to technical advances in shale gas, the cost of producing natural gas keeps falling.

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