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Critical review finds actual measurement data on segments of natural gas lifecycle sparse or lacking

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The team, from the Desert Research Institute, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, and Stanford University, began by defining a consistent vocabulary, first by jettisoning the popular umbrella label of “fracking” applied to unconventional oil and natural gas development. well production end-of-life. Branosky, E.; Stevens, A.;

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Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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60% of ground-level ozone (O 3 ) precursors, 6% of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), and 22% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted. not reformulated) gasoline; and (4) crude oil production is 100% conventional crude (most oil sands production occurs outside of our spatial modeling domain—i.e., the contiguous US).

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