Yale Environment 360: The United States has won the lottery on natural gas. According to the most recent estimates by the Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has some 2.2 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas -- enough to satisfy all of our natural gas demands for the next century at current consumption levels. The extraction of shale gas, enabled by technological advances such as hydrofracturing and horizontal drilling, has led the way in creating this largely unforeseen cornucopia. Domestic...
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