Biden’s Climate Envoy Endorses Natural Gas with CCUS as Long-term Energy Solution

U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry this week expressed support for natural gas as a long-term energy source, provided that the resulting carbon emissions are abated. 

“I’m for gas as this transitional effort, and I hope someone will come up with the technology that can affordably find a way to capture the emissions,” Kerry said during a virtual panel at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

“Gas by itself is not the problem,” Kerry said. He added that the problem is the carbon dioxide emissions that result from burning methane, the primary component of natural gas. 

He cited that the unabated greenhouse gas emissions of burning natural gas are roughly half those of coal, “so I’m for gas. I’ll take a gas turbine in the place of...