If Natural Gas Use Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Why Would the Industry Oppose Regulations that Ensure It Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

It might have been worth a few sentences calling attention to the seeming irony in the industry's objections to proposed regulations that would limit emissions of methane gas. The NYT article noted that a large share of greenhouse gas comes from such methane emissions. At the same time, the industry has promoted fracking as a way of developing a bridge fuel, that emits less greenhouse gas than the coal it replaces, until renewable energy becomes cheaper.

If the net effect of fracking is to re...