First the good news: most of the nation’s natural gas leakage can be halted by plugging up a relatively small number of “super emitters,” according to the Stanford researcher who first documented the government’s underestimate of the methane problem.
“If you could solve the top 20 percent of the leaks, find them and fix them, you’re at least 90 percent of the way there,” Adam Brandt said last Monday, briefing the public and colleagues at Stanford’s Precourt Institute of Energy on a study yet to be published.
