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Methane Emissions Onshore Oil and Gas 14 Coal Plants Powered for One Year
2016-06-21 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: When we talk about climate change all too often we focus on carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. But there is a much more potent greenhouse gas, methane, which is much more efficient at trapping radiation than CO2. Some estimates put it at 87 times more potent over a 20 year lifetime than carbon dioxide. And who is the biggest culprit for releasing methane in the U.S.? It is the oil and gas industry, which is the largest industrial source of methane pollution in the country, releasing 33 percent...
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