Cutting Back on Methan Emissions Is Not Just a US Problem

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More than a hundred countries joined this side global agreement that says they are going to cut their methin omissions by 30%. Cutting back on misen omissions is one of the most effective things we can do to reduce neaterm global warming and keep one point five degree celsius. It's not as simple as just calling the oil company up and reporting this because we don't have a ton of environmental enforcement here. The pa is just now working on a proposal for how to cut back on methan emissions from facilities.

Methane traps more than 80 times as much heat as CO2 over the short term. So we could make a real difference on climate change this decade if we could stop leaking so much methane into the atmosphere. But before researchers and regulators can figure out how to do that, the methane hunters need to find the leaks.

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