Flaring practices allow more methane into the atmosphere than thought; simple fixes can have big impact
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The new data suggests we have overestimated flaring’s effectiveness and, as a result, underestimated its contribution to methane emissions and climate change. Multiple flares observed in operation in the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin in North Dakota, 2021. A paper on the work is published in Science.
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