ApocaDocs: EPA methane report further divides fracking camps

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]

The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]

Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

A great gift
for crisis deniers!

Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
~~$24.99~~ now $15!
Or read FREE online!

Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Mon Apr 29 2013: from Associated Press:


	EPA methane report further divides fracking camps http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1367279060 The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?... The scope of the EPA's revision was vast. In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. That's about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates.

[Read more stories about: anthropogenic change, fracking, methane release]

New!:

No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?

We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

'Doc Jim says:

Does this mean we are only 80 percent frucked, after all?