Your Energy Virginia Your Energy Virginia calls on visitors to push back against its opponents' "extreme campaign by telling your friends the truth." The politics surrounding natural gas can get dicey. Drilling sites regularly leak methane, a major component in natural gas and a powerful greenhouse gas that traps roughly 30 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. But burning natural gas releases much lower amounts of greenhouse gases than burning other fossil fuels. As utilities have replaced coal with natural gas, U.S. emissions have dropped by double digits.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2017 09:46 UTC