{"id":572217,"date":"2023-04-27T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572217"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T04:51:59","slug":"drop-the-natural-in-natural-gas-climate-activists-urge-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drop-the-natural-in-natural-gas-climate-activists-urge-us-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop the &#8216;natural&#8217; in natural gas: Climate activists urge US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since almost two centuries ago \u2014 not long after it was identified bubbling up in a creek in western New York \u2014 the flammable below-ground substance composed of methane and other hydrocarbons has been called \u201cnatural gas\u201d in the US. <\/p>\n<p>Now, some environmental activists say it\u2019s time to ditch that label. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing natural about fracking; there\u2019s nothing natural about thousands of miles of pipelines and there\u2019s nothing natural about the indoor air pollution that is associated with gas,\u201d said Caleb Heeringa, campaign director of the environmental advocacy group Gas Leaks. <\/p>\n<p>Heeringa and other environmentalists are pushing federal regulators to set a policy discouraging companies from using the term \u201cnatural gas\u201d in marketing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since almost two centuries ago \u2014 not long after it was identified bubbling up in a creek in western New York \u2014 the flammable below-ground substance composed of methane and other hydrocarbons has been called \u201cnatural gas\u201d in the US. Now, some environmental activists say it\u2019s time to ditch that label. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing natural about fracking; there\u2019s nothing natural about thousands of miles of pipelines and there\u2019s nothing natural about the indoor air pollution that is associated with gas,\u201d said Caleb Heeringa, campaign director of the environmental advocacy group Gas Leaks. Heeringa and other environmentalists are pushing federal regulators to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}