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Satellites Can Now Identify Methane ‘Super-Emitters’
Two eyes in the sky are now trained on Earth, locating the worst offenders for releasing methane, wherever they may be.
More than 60 percent of global methane emissions come from human activity: extracting fossil fuels; raising cows that burp (not fart); dumping trash in our landfills and waste treatment sites. This might well lead unscrupulous owners of oil and gas companies to order their crews to perform facility maintenance at night, when such satellites can’t see them. That blowout sickened nearby residents, led to a $1.8 billion settlement from SoCalGas to almost 10,000 evacuated families, and ultimately emitted 97,000 metric ton of methane, the biggest gas leak in US history.
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