Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy said natural-gas production — with the right safeguards — is a major piece of Obama administration efforts to combat global warming, reports The Hill, citing prepared remarks for a speech in Colorado.
The comments are part of a wider administration effort to cast the U.S. gas production boom as a way to help slow global warming, writes Ben Geman of The Hill. Two weeks earlier, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz rejected claims that natural gas isn’t helping in the fight against warming due to releases of the potent greenhouse gas methane at wells, transport and processing sites, notes the article in The Hill.
