Bay Area methane emissions may be double what we thought

Bay Area methane emissions may be double what we thought Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2017 - Emissions of methane - a potent climate-warming gas - may be roughly twice as high as officially estimated for the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the emissions come from biological sources, such as landfills, but natural gas leakage is also an important source, according to a new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The report by rese ... more

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