ClimateWire: As the U.S. oil and gas industry emits carbon pollutants like CO2 and methane to the atmosphere, its emissions are tracked closely by federal regulators.
But the federal tracking underestimates emissions of methane, which is the primary component of natural gas, in at least one major natural-gas-producing region in the United States: the Barnett Shale in the Dallas-Forth Worth area of Texas. The results were part of a series of 11 studies funded by the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental...