{"id":11648,"date":"2022-08-04T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/04\/go-read-this-investigation-into-major-methane-leaks-in-texas-and-new-mexico\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:29:13","slug":"go-read-this-investigation-into-major-methane-leaks-in-texas-and-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/04\/go-read-this-investigation-into-major-methane-leaks-in-texas-and-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Go read this investigation into major methane leaks in Texas and New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/3\/23287271\/methane-leaks-texas-permian-basin-oil-gas<\/a>
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Scientists and journalists are on the hunt for methane spewing out of oil and gas infrastructure in the US. The leaking methane is invisible to the naked eye, but a recent investigation<\/a> by The<\/em> Associated Press<\/em> \u2014 with help from NASA and other researchers \u2014 helps expose the huge scale of the problem. <\/p>\n

In the Permian Basin, a major oil- and gas-producing area spread across Texas and New Mexico, they revealed hundreds of \u201csuper-emitting\u201d sites gushing methane. Methane is the primary component of \u201cnatural gas\u201d and is even more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere. Using some neat tech, Carbon Mapper \u2014 the group of academic and nonprofit researchers working alongside NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory \u2014 spotted 533 of those super-polluting sites. That data was the starting point for some good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by The Associated Press<\/em>, which traced down the companies responsible using public records. <\/p>\n

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