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Fossil-fueled Democrats want to use unverifiable “certified gas” schemes to undermine one of Biden’s most important climate moves. Some of Big Oil’s favorite Democrats are working to help their fossil fuel donors undercut one of President Joe Biden’s most consequential climate moves by reclassifying the companies’ dirty gas with “cleaner” branding.

Fossil fuels are dirty, unpopular, and quickly pushing the planet off a climate change cliff. Big Oil knows this. That's why they're now labeling the same dirty products they've been selling as "clean," highlighting industry's new strategy of delay and greenwashing instead of historic denial.

Ratepayers are increasingly on the hook to pay the extra costs for “certified gas” promising low-pollution but that critics warn is rife with problems.

Group of progressive senators led by Ed Markey call for crackdown on certified natural gas in letter to US federal regulators.

The terms and narratives the fossil fuel industry is using to obstruct climate action.

• Australia, Japan, EU will collaborate on voluntary framework

• Group aims to standardize info on gas supply chain emissions

An independent report casts doubt on the credibility of a major gas certification company.

The US Department of Energy does not plan to develop a standard for natural gas certified as low in greenhouse gas emissions and is focused instead on working with other nations to form a common approach toward tracking emissions across the natural gas supply chain, an agency spokesperson told S&P Global Commodity Insights July 21.

A group of nearly 150 environmental justice groups urged the Biden administration on Wednesday to abandon talks with global energy companies on standards for "certified" natural gas, a form of the fuel that producers market as climate friendly, but critics say undermines the transition from fossil fuels.

Environmental groups charge that the oil and gas industry is using promises of a future “green” fossil fuel economy to boost the use of the fuels in the present.