NYT – Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest (Gift Link)

Of course they did.

The oil and gas industry has known for decades that its wells were releasing far more planet-warming methane than companies acknowledged, according to industry documents identified by an environmental group.

In a report on the findings released on Monday, the Center for Climate Integrity cited, among other examples, a 1979 report commissioned by the research arm of the American Gas Association, an industry group. That report said that major gas fields in the United States could be releasing far more planet-warming gases than was being officially reported.

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The report, ‘The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas: How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution’, is here.