You may have heard the news by now: “natural” gas is a hot mess. It’s actually methane, which is cooking the climate, polluting the air inside your home and constantly at risk of explosion.  

Today a group of Senators led by Ed Markey urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to crack down on the fossil fuel industry’s marketing of “certified” natural gas — an increasingly popular but completely unregulated concept that claims to produce gas with lower methane emissions.

Recent news that President Biden will pause approval of new “natural” gas export facilities is a significant win in the fight for a clean energy future, and a big setback in the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing campaign to mislead the public about methane gas.