A new report contends oil and gas wells, pipelines and compressors across the U.S. are emitting three times the amount of methane into the atmosphere as the government claims.
The lead author of a study in journal Nature says it’s cost more than $9 billion a year in climate damage. The author also suggests more than half of the methane emissions are from a small number of oil and gas sites and it means the methane problem is far worse than thought by the government.
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