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For example, in the plan, Bloomberg has a goal of making all new buildings zero-carbon by 2025 while retrofitting older ones mostly by phasing out natural gas appliances, like stoves and boilers. So Bloomberg’s record on gas is much more “mixed” than he lets on.Į&E News back in January took a look at the Bloomberg campaign’s climate plan and found some significant differences with his stances as mayor of NYC. Not to mention that his private investments allegedly also include natural gas. A report in the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch on Monday points out that in his personal political donations, Bloomberg has contributed to a who’s who of Republican lawmakers like giving $11.7 million in 2016 to Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey (his Democratic opponent was former Al Gore aide Katie McGinty) who the League of Conservation Voters dubbed that year ” Big Oil’s Best Friend” and in 2014 Bloomberg made contributions to super PACs supporting Lindsey Graham and Thad Cochran. Some have speculated that in particular Bloomberg’s positions on natural gas were carefully calibrated to make him more viable in states like Texas and Oklahoma - a fact that the President may have been concerned about given his “disinformation” tweet about Bloomberg. Why This Matters: Bloomberg has funded a highly successful campaign to shutter dirty coal plants in the U.S., but overall his position on fossil fuels is the most conservative of the remaining top tier Presidential candidates. Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg’s position on natural gas took center stage yesterday with the President tweeting to “Texas & Oklahoma” - two Super Tuesday states - that people should not vote for “Mini Mike” because he will kill “your drilling, fracking, and pipelines.” However, according to The Washington Post, Bloomberg’s position on natural gas is more complicated - he opposes a nationwide ban on fracking and also opposes a ban on oil and gas exports from the U.S., but his clean energy plan states that he will “stop the rush to build new polluting gas plants, and reduce pollution from existing gas plants….”