Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced the city is scrapping plans for a multi-billion-dollar update to three natural gas power plants, instead choosing to invest in renewable energy and storage. “This is the beginning of the end of natural gas in Los Angeles,” said Mayor Garcetti. “The climate crisis demands that we move more quickly to end dependence on fossil fuel, and that’s what today is all about.” Last year America’s carbon emissions rose over 3 percent , despite coal plants closing and being replaced in part by natural gas, the much-touted “ bridge fuel ” and “cleaner” fossil fuel alternative. As a new series from the sustainability think tank the Sightline Institute points out, the idea of natural gas as a bridge fuel is “ alarmingly deceptive .” But signs are emerging that, despite oil and gas industry efforts to shirk blame for the climate crisis and […]