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Frackers are flooding the atmosphere with climate-warming methane

2014-05-13 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: The free pass that frackers and natural-gas handlers have gotten on their climate-changing methane emissions is really starting to stink to high hell. We told you in February about the results of a meta-analysis of 20 years worth of scientific studies, which concluded that the EPA underestimates the natural-gas industry`s climate impacts by 25 to 75 percent, due to methane leakage from its gas drilling operations and pipelines. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse...

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