Let's Clear the Air
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The Challenge
Meeting rising energy demand while balancing reliability, cost and security isn’t simple. It requires thoughtful solutions, not quick fixes.
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Midstream supports a practical, balanced energy future. Let’s engage in an open conversation about how infrastructure, innovation, and diverse fuels help keep energy reliable and affordable.
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Let's Clear The Air
Conversations fueled by cutting-edge innovation as we explore how we can work together across the energy industry to meet rising demand while addressing society’s need for affordability, reliability, and sustainability.
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Episode 36
Episode 36 – Show Me the Kilowatts: Building America’s Electric Future
Episode 35
Episode 35 – The Key to America’s Economic Growth: More Molecules and Electrons
Episode 34
Episode 34 – Four-plus Years to Get a Permit. That’s Only Half the Story.
Episode 33
Episode 33 – The Future of Carbon Capture with Dr. Ramesh Agarwal
Episode 32
Episode 32 – The Real Climate Change Story: Evolving Science and Policy with Roger Pielke Jr.
Episode 31
Episode 31 – Peanut Butter, Steel, and Semiconductors Share the Same Problem with NAM’s Mike Davin
Energy Insights
Explore quick facts, common questions, and key insights about how midstream energy works.
Myth: Midstream is an old-economy industry with no role in a cleaner energy future.
Fact: Natural gas has been the leading source of electricity generation for more than a decade.
The same expertise, and in some cases, the same infrastructure, is now being used to deliver power directly to data centers, AI facilities, and advanced manufacturers. Midstream is a key part of how the next generation of power gets built and delivered.
Why does the U.S. export natural gas when Americans need energy too?
The U.S. is now the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, shipping a record 111 million metric tons in 2025.
Europe has been the biggest beneficiary, replacing Russian pipeline gas with American supply to stabilize energy prices and reduce dependence on other sources. When Europe needed to replace its source of natural gas, American LNG (liquified natural gas) was there. Midstream builds and operates the infrastructure that made that possible, gathering raw resources from oil and gas wells, processing them into valuable products, and moving them across the country to export terminals on the coast.
The secret behind cleaner electricity? Less coal, more natural gas.
Look at the U.S. electric power sector from 1990 to 2020 and a clear pattern emerges. As natural gas shouldered more of the generation load, total emissions from the power sector dropped significantly.
Renewables are growing too, but the coal-to-gas shift is what moved the needle. Pipelines are what made that shift possible.
