Environmental justice advocates on Wednesday pointed to a methane plume so large it was seen last month from space via satellite as the latest evidence that emissions of the potent fossil fuel must be reined in.
As Bloomberg reported Monday, the geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS detected the plume of the invisible greenhouse gas, which spanned 56 miles and covered several parishes across Louisiana, on January 21.
The methane plume is the largest concentration of the gas seen via satellite in the U.S. since last October.
The firm said a plume of such size suggested an emissions rate of 105 tons of methane per hour. []–A release that lasted more than an hour at that rate would have had the same short-term environmental impact as yearly emissions from nearly 2,000 cars, Bloomberg reported.
— source commondreams.org | Julia Conley | Feb 16, 2022
