Is There an Army of Regulators for Oil and Gas Wells?

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There are activists like sharon and miguel doing this kind of work, but their organization has just 30 people. Most of their work has to be focused on raising awareness about this issue by posting vidios on tube and twitter. But it's just a drop in the bucket. It would take an army of regulators, of inspectors to keep this industry. Right now, scientists are working on a whole set of new tools that can act like that army - at a much bigger scale.

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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