The thing about natural gas is that it's not carbon FREE, but is carbon LOW. So, using natural gas in place of coal or oil reduces carbon dioxide emissions. It was the shift to use of natural gas that made the US the largest reducer of carbon emissions in the world in 2017.
In other words, it's not perfect, but it's better.
For New York governor Andrew Cuomo, though, better is not good enough. So some improvement is foregone in favour of no improvement. And consumers are being denied natural gas for their cooking, for the sake of a blinkered ideology. The insanity of the Green Left.
It's another case of:
Perfection is the enemy of action.