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A single gas well leak California biggest contributor climate change
2016-01-05 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The single biggest contributor to climate change in California is a blown-out natural gas well more than 8,700ft underground, state authorities and campaign groups said Monday. The broken well at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage site has released more than 77,000 metric tons of the powerful climate pollutant methane since the rupture was first detected on 23 October, according to a counter created by the Environmental Defense Fund. Methane is a fast-acting climate pollutant more than...
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