Biden Backs Natural Gas Only With Carbon Removal in Mandate

June 23, 2021, 3:19 PM UTC

The White House only backs the inclusion of natural gas in it’s proposed clean energy mandate if it’s coupled with carbon sequestration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says.

  • “I think that if you combined natural gas with carbon removal so that it was really clean and that you had zero carbon emissions, it could be” included in the administration’s Clean Energy Standard Act, Granholm says in response to a question at a Senate’s subcommittee

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