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Sources: Methane 101

  1. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
  2. https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane
  3. https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agriculture-and-climate-change-reducing-methane-emissions-irrigated-rice
  4. https://www.edf.org/climate/methane-crucial-opportunity-climate-fight
  5. https://www.edf.org/climate/methane-crucial-opportunity-climate-fight
  6. https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/28/impacts-of-unconventional-oil-and-gas-industry
  7. https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/content/Appendix%20G%2C%20Roy%2C%20Thompson%2C%20Health%20Impacts%20of%20Oil%20and%20Natural%20Gas%20Operations.pdf
  8. https://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/content/methane_rule_health_fact_sheet_reboot_final_no_citations.pdf
  9. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767260?
  10. https://www.hhs.gov/climate-change-health-equity-environmental-justice/climate-change-health-equity/index.html
  11. https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities
  12. https://earthworks.org/issues/flaring_and_venting/
  13. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29709-3
  14. https://www.edf.org/media/new-study-low-producing-oil-and-gas-wells-drive-roughly-half-well-site-methane-pollution
  15. https://www.momscleanairforce.org/new-mexico-methane-rule-model-epa/
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