U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments to Europe to cut the region’s dependence on Russian fuel risks undermining his administration’s climate goals by encouraging more gas production and increasing emissions, according to climate experts. The issue reflects the tricky balance the White House must strike between global energy security issues and longer-term aspirations to usher in a broad transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of global warming. “What we’re doing is supplanting Russian gas,” U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change John Kerry told Reuters in an interview. “Will there be some leakage in terms of that? Yes, sure,” he said, […]