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CA officials are saying that methane leaks have not been counted towards carbon emissions coming from the state. Ca has been limiting climate pollution each year with stricter laws.
Officials with the agency responsible for regulating greenhouse gas emissions say they don't include methane that leaks from these idle wells in their inventory of the state's emissions.
Some 35,000 old, inactive oil and gas wells perforate the state's landscape.
A scientist says the lack of data calls into question California's ability to meet its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.
California claims to know how much climate-warming gas is going into the air from within...