Climate researchers are concerned that the US will be unable to achieve its climate goals set under the Paris Climate Accord should its utilities fail to reduce investments in natural gas assets. As Michael Dobson, a former climate advisor for the Marshall Islands, recently wrote, fossil fuel companies are currently "pricing in" the possibility that Trump will win in November and "the fragile, hard-won consensus on global climate action will evaporate soon after; and that investments in oil, gas, and ... coal might not be such bad bets after all." The report also found that coal and nuclear plants have been shut down because of low demand for electricity from consumers. Although industry leaders claim gas to be a transition energy towards renewables, environmentalists are concerned of their lack of coherent trajectory towards a green fuel economy.
Climate researchers are concerned that the US will be unable to achieve its climate goals set under the Paris Climate Accord should its utilities fail to reduce investments in natural gas assets. The report also found that coal and nuclear plants have been shut down because of low demand for electricity from consumers. Although industry leaders claim gas to be a transition energy towards renewables, environmentalists are concerned of their lack of coherent trajectory towards a green fuel economy.