Environment & Energy

...the use of dangerous natural gas.

(It is the use of dangerous natural gas that has led to the decline of coal in the US, where the general population is oblivious to the fact that, worldwide, the use of coal is increasing, not decreasing.)

Of course, people in the US like to lie to themselves and each other by making the very disingenuous claim that electricity is "green," which it isn't pretty much anywhere in this whole damned country other than a few rural or semirural areas.

The carbon intensity of the US:



The key to the colors is obviated by passing the cursor over them at the Electricity Map link.

The fact is that the United States while it may have substituted much coal with dangerous natural gas, still burns huge amounts of coal while we all wait, like Godot, for so called "renewable energy" to lead to the elimination of coal, which it can't or won't, because coal is, while extremely dirty, reliable and the materially unsustainable so called "renewable energy" isn't. Like that coal dependent hellhole Germany, if the access to gas declines or disappears, the US will burn coal, and in effect, every electric stove will become a coal stove.