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U.S. May Be Producing 50% More Methane Than EPA Thinks

2013-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Methane is the source of the gas we burn in stoves. You can also use it to make plastics, antifreeze or fertilizer. It comes out of underground deposits, but it also seeps up from swamps, landfills, even the stomachs of cows. And while methane is valuable, a lot of it gets up into the atmosphere, where it becomes a very damaging greenhouse gas. Scientists have been trying to find out, with varying success, exactly how much of this climate-warming gas gets into the atmosphere. A study published...

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