Is Natural Gas Better Than Coal for Climate Change?

Many of us have thought that natural gas could serve as a bridge between coal and "clean" energy (solar and wind) because combustion of natural gas produces far less CO2 than combustion of coal. Therefore, from a climate change perspective, natural gas was better than coal.

EPA site provides green house gas data for US, NC

The Environmental Protection Agency provides detailed data on sites that release green house gases (GHG), available for the entire US and for individual states, found at: http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ghgdata/