The Fight Over The Future Of Natural Gas

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A growing number of cities are looking at restricting the use of gas in new buildings to reduce climate emissions. But some states are considering laws to block those efforts, with backing from the natural gas industry.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.1	Hey everybody, Maddie,
0:06.9	so if I hear in today we've got NPR climate reporter Dan
0:10.7	Charles, hi, a Dan.
0:11.8	Hi, Maddie.
0:12.6	What do you got for us today?
0:13.8	Uh, we are going places, Maddie.
0:15.9	Three different places.
0:17.6	Starting with a city where Jasmine Moore lives and works.
0:21.2	Um, the director of sustainability with the City of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas.
0:26.0	Her job is finding ways for people to just for instance, stop burning so much gas and coal and oil.
0:33.5	Because last year the City Commission in her city, Lawrence adopted a goal of moving to 100%
0:40.1	renewable energy.
0:41.3	The intent is that we start to have conversations with our community members, the business community,
0:48.0	and chart that path towards 100% renewable.
0:52.2	So this would mean things like solar, wind energy, powering everything, like to heat your home,
0:57.8	drive your car, cook your food, that kind of stuff.
0:59.7	That's right.
1:00.4	No more burning fossil fuels, eventually.
1:03.5	Okay, I was about to say something ambitious, Dan.
1:06.0	Well, it is.
1:07.2	It caught the attention of some powerful people in the oil and gas industry.
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