Biden Urged to 'Follow the Facts' as Study Shows LNG Emissions 33% Worse Than Coal

It's BS. Burning LNG is much cleaner than burning coal (any type) because you don't have all the solid impurities (such as sulfur resulting in SO2 etc) and the combustion is more complete (less CO etc). If you take into account energy used to compress LNG and also losses during "handling" but you do not consider the energy used to mine coal / extract oil and also do not consider methane released during coal mining and oil extraction then it's obviously not a fair comparison. Do you know why oil wells / processing facilities have flares? They're there to burn methane encountered during processing. Methane is everywhere in the ground and acting like it's only a problem when handling natural gas is BS. Whoever wrote this has an agenda.

Methane, the major constituent of LNG, is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. When coal escapes, you have a black rock on the ground. When natural gas escapes, it fucks up the atmosphere real bad. And it escapes a lot along the supply chain. These are called fugitive emissions and iirc companies are not even required to keep track of them.

The amount of energy required to liquefy and ship natural gas across the ocean is horrendous, it's almost certainly more emissions than locally mined coal in England or whatever.

This carbon stuff is always funny math though, like on a straight btu basis gas is much cleaner but probably not when you include transportation. In fact the retirement of coal plants in favor of combined cycle gas has been a huge driver of CO2 emissions reduction in the power sector.