Sentences with phrase «surpassed by natural gas»
Yet even though the Clean Power Plan has never gone into effect and is now being repealed by the EPA, coal is already being surpassed by natural gas — and sooner.
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The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.
The EIA predicted in March that natural gas» share of the electricity market would surpass coal for the first time in 2016, a trend that could pick up pace by next year.
Solar ranks second among energy industries in the number of people it employs, slightly exceeding the natural gas industry and surpassed only by the petroleum industry.