Expert: 'If you take away coal and natural gas, where are we going to get our electric pow - WWMT-TV

Expert: 'If you take away coal and natural gas, where are we going to get our electric pow | KDNL

WASHINGTON (TND) — Critics blasts the Biden administration's new methane rules. They say it will cost American taxpayers a trillion dollars and destroy the oil and gas industry.

Former White House Advisor Steve Moore joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to break it down.

“Let's start with the country that really isn't represented this year at this climate change conference. That, of course, is China and that is ironic and disappointing. So, of course China is the largest polluter in the world,” he said. “All of these commitments are being made by the United States and some other countries and yet the country that really needs to reduce its climate pollution is China and they're not there.”

The Biden administration issued the final rule which aims to cut methane emissions from oil and gas and is part of a broader effort by the administration to reduce climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan and White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi announced the rule at the U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, and a global leader in the oil and gas industry.

“Basically, what happened this week was two things. First, the Biden administration announced that they will build no new coal plants in the United States ever and that they will start to shut down virtually every coal plant in the United States, which is a big problem because we get about 30% of our electric power today, still from coal,” Moore said. “Then a few days later, they announced this kind of war on methane. Methane is just another word for natural gas. We get about 40% of our electric power from natural gas. So if you take away coal and natural gas, where are we going to get our electric power from? That's the question Americans have to start asking.”