National Public Radio: There are a lot of cheerleaders for the nation's natural gas boom - in part because they believe it's a lot cleaner than dirty coal. It's pretty well-known that power plants that burn coal pump out far more greenhouse gases than power plants that run on natural gas. But there's a hitch: We don't really know how much air pollution is created when companies drill for natural gas. Well heads, storage tanks and pipelines all leak methane in sprawling gas fields. "We need to know a lot about methane...
URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/151545578/frackings-methane-trail-a-detective-story?ft=1&f=1025
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