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Researcher looks to better understand climate risks of leaky natural gas wells

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Natural gas has been touted as the way to quickly reduce carbon emissions from coal, but some scientists say we’re trading carbon for methane, which can be even worse. But no one knows how much methane is leaking out of new and old wells, which makes it hard to know just how much methane is released.

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