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Natural Gas May Benefit Climate Despite Methane Leaks

2014-02-13 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Methane leaks are common in the U.S. natural gas production and distribution system, but they do not fully negate the climate benefits of using natural gas to produce electricity over burning coal for electric power, according to a new Stanford University analysis. The paper, to be published Friday in the journal Science, concludes that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inventories underestimate methane emissions from natural gas production, but hydraulic fracturing -- a process of fracturing...

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