![]() ![]() ![]() "This is a major milestone for the entire natural gas industry," Pedro Cherry, president and CEO of Chattanooga Gas, said Thursday during an announcement with state legislators, regulators and industry leaders. The reduction in greenhouse emissions by the next generation gas is roughly equivalent to removing the emissions from more than 3,500 gasoline-powered automobiles from the road every year. The Chattanooga utility, which is one of a half dozen natural gas distributors owned by the Atlanta-based Southern Gas Co., entered into an agreement last year with Williams' Sequent Energy Management to ensure gas supplied to its 70,000 customers in Hamilton and Bradley counties is procured, transported and delivered by companies that are reducing their methane emissions.Īt an announcement Thursday at the headquarters of Chattanooga Gas, officials said such next-generation natural gas is cutting an estimated 646 tons of methane or 16,152 tons of carbon dioxide per year. has become one of the first gas utilities in the country to shift entirely to certified low-emission natural gas as part of the commitment by its parent company to become carbon neutral by 2050. ![]()
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