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Abandoned Wells Identified Greenhouse Gas 'Super-emitters'

2014-12-12 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown, and possibly substantial, source of the greenhouse gas methane to the Earth's atmosphere. After testing a sample of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, the researchers found that many of the old wells leaked substantial quantities of methane. Because there are so many abandoned wells nationwide (a recent study from Stanford University concluded there were roughly 3 million abandoned wells in the...

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