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Brian Brock

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DOWNEY: Gas Demonized, But CO2 Levels Keep Going Down

LETTER from DICK DOWNEY Gas Demonized, But CO2 Levels Keep Going Down To the Editor: Brian Brock’s recent letter to the editor (“Renewables, Not Gas, The Cleaner Way To Go,” 1/23-24/20) misses the forest for the trees.  In citing a one-year (2018) up-tick in U.S. energy-related CO2, he conveniently skips the long-term role of gas in lowering emissions. A week earlier, the Energy Information Agency’s three decade (1990-2021) emissions report shows CO2 emissions dropped to 1990 levels as shale gas…
February 12, 2020
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BROCK: Renewables, Not Gas Cleaner Way To Go

LETTER from BRIAN BROCK Renewables, Not Gas Cleaner Way To Go To the Editor: The preliminary estimate of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 is up 3.4 percent, reversing the recent downward trend. What is more, arguing that burning methane is better than coal because it releases less carbon dioxide conveniently neglects that the entire gas infrastructure leaks methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.  (Conveniently that is for that argument, not for the environment.)  Like carbon…
January 22, 2020

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