Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry

What's more – as new research this fall showed – when you put fracked gas on a boat and send it on a long ocean cruise, so much leaks out that it's far worse than coal. If the White House had kept granting all the permits that industry wanted, within a decade US natural gas would be producing more greenhouse gas emissions than everything that happens on the continent of Europe. It's the biggest fossil fuel expansion project on Earth. 

That's half the problem with Rice's argument. The other half is, it's not coal that Rice's gas mostly undercuts. We now live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun; there's no reason not to go straight from coal to renewable energy, with no intermediate stop at gas. The idea that it's a "bridge fuel" is a decade out of date, but it's an argument that big oil wants to extend four or five decades into the future, because that's how long this new infrastructure is supposed to last...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/07/joe-biden-big-oil-lng-permits