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Why a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again

Inside Climate News · By Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight · last updated
A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky wells across the United States

By Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight

On a November afternoon in 2022, a 57-year old well tapped into an underground natural gas storage reservoir in western Pennsylvania started leaking, fast enough that people a few miles away heard a loud, jet engine-like noise.