Natural gas can help the United States reduce its CO2 footprint by up to 20%

“Simply by ramping up our nation’s generation of electricity from underutilized natural gas plants and ramping down our generation from coal, the United States could reduce its total CO2 footprint by 14 to 20 percent tomorrow with no disruption in access to energy services and no new infrastructure investments.” So concludes Sean Casten in the latest issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly. He notes that the congressional proposal to reduce emissions by 17 percent over ten years is “constrained only by its ambition.”