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Why utilities have little incentive to plug leaking natural gas

  • Written by Catherine Hausman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
imageThe EPA has issued rules to regulate methane emission from new oil and gas wells in the face of industry and political pushback. gas storage via www.shutterstock.com

The Aliso Canyon leak in California earlier this year focused public attention on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Methane is the primary component of natural gas, and...

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