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Flaring and venting fossil fuels release methane, which traps heat 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period

Flaring and venting fossil fuels release methane, which traps heat 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period

“The atmosphere is a free dumping place,” said one Columbia University researcher. “It’s like throwing garbage out the window back in the Middle Ages.”

Oil and gas operators in the U.S. have burned off 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in recent years.

Oil and gas operators in the U.S. have burned off 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in recent years.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wayne Christian wanted to brag, he said, rocking in his burgundy leather chair atop the dais of the powerful Railroad Commission of Texas. Colleagues and staff

Oil and gas operators in Texas and a dozen other U.S. states have flared, or burned off, at least 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas over much of the last decade, according to an analysis of satellite data by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. The industry has also directly released, or vented, into the atmosphere unknown amounts of the methane-rich gas. Flaring and venting release a cocktail of carbon dioxide, methane and other pollutants. But regulators are unaware of the tota...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wayne Christian wanted to brag, he said, rocking in his burgundy leather chair atop the dais of the powerful Railroad Commission of Texas. Colleagues and staff were doing “a darn good job,” and people who “gripe about the environmental issues” were misinformed.

Over much of the last decade, oil and gas operators in Texas and a dozen other U.S. states have flared, or burned off, at least 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to an analysis of satellite data by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

AUSTIN, Texas — Wayne Christian wanted to brag, he said, rocking in his burgundy leather chair atop the dais of the powerful Railroad Commission of Texas. Colleagues and staff were doing “a darn good job,” and people who “gripe about the environmental issues” were misinformed.