Natural Gas: Critical Energy for American Communities

Customers deserve to have choices about the energy they use to heat their homes and cook their food. And they need to have the right information to make an informed decision. Many fossil fuel bans are being debated without proper information or deliberate misinformation. The purpose of this page is to provide details about activity across the country related to proposed natural gas bans, credible data and analysis that will illustrate the continued role for natural gas to help reliably, affordably, safely and environmentally responsibly meet our nation’s energy needs.

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Media/Research Responses

AGA Response to the Sierra Club Petition for Rulemaking to list Heating Appliances as a Source Category and to issue New Source Performance Standards under Clean Air Act Section 111
AGA Letter to the American Medical Association-AGA submitted a letter on August 26, 2022 to the American Medical Association to express concern about the incomplete and inadequate scientific basis of the AMA House of Delegates Resolution 439.
Gradient Corporation Letter to AGA - Gradient Corporation reviewed scientific evidence related to the American Medical Association's recently adopted Resolution 439. The letter outlines their findings and notes significant limitations in the studies studies addressing gas-fired residential cooking appliances and childhood asthma.
Environmental Research Letters Study: A Decade of the U.S. Energy Mix Transitioning Away from Coal: Historical Reconstruction of the Reductions in the Public Health Burden of Energy
Wall Street Journal
The Atlantic
The Weather Channel
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Environmental Science & Technology: "Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User"

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Natural Gas: Critical Energy for American Communities