Only in a world which contains no economically affordable solution to the closing of coal-power other than the building of NG-power can we say that NG is the thing that helps us lower emissions. We do not live in that world, and we haven't for a while.

Britain has also closed a crapton of coal power, finally zeroed it out. In 2010, NG power in the UK produced 175.7 TWh of power, and in 2020 produced 112.7 TWh of power. 2023: 97.9 TWh. Natural gas did not help the UK lower emissions. Closing coal did. NG doesn't lower emissions.