Climate Changed
U.S. Seen as Climate Risk With Two-Thirds of New Oil and Gas
- ‘Staggering’ forecast makes U.S. climate risk: Global Witness
- Surge would be 40 times new Russian output, 20 times Saudi
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The U.S. will account for for almost two-thirds of the world’s new oil and natural gas output in the decade ahead, making it a critical obstacle to stopping climate pollution, a London-based advocacy group says.
Propelled by the shale boom, the U.S. will pump out the equivalent of 88.9 billion barrels of oil from new fields in the 2020s, Global Witness, an environmental and human rights group, said in a report Tuesday that cites data from industry consultant Rystad Energy.