Need Seen for Reducing Massachusetts' Gas Use

摘要

Natural gas-fired power generation has risen almost to a point of overreliance in Massachusetts, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in a recent report. And the rise in gas use has been frenetic—jumping from 30% in 2001 to 64% in 2015 — as pressure grows to reduce carbon dioxide (C02) emissions by phasing out coal- and oil-fired power plants.