"Up until a few years ago, a better economy meant more fossil-fuel consumption," reported NPR climate correspondent Jeff Brady. He continued: "The fact" - and here, let's take a good long look at the word "fact" - "that those two are decoupling, that growth can happen without using more fossil fuels, shows that the country can potentially address climate change without a lot of economic pain."
It happened because we are using more natural gas and less coal, a trend that has been driven in the long term not by environmental policy but because natural gas is generally more economically efficient for running power plants.
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