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Princeton Study: Up to 900,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute Pennsylvanias Air
2014-06-19 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pennsylvania already has a fracking problem groups struggle to inspire politicians to address. Now, a Princeton University study shows that hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil wells are adding to the state`s pollution. CO2, Methane, and Brine Leakage through Subsurface Pathways: Exploring Modeling, Measurement and Policy Options is a first-of-its-kind study from Mary Klang that describes how abandoned oil wells serve as leakage pathways for carbon dioxide, methane, brine and more. Based...
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