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Citation Label: CO079
Publication Name: Colorado Oil and Gas Wells Emit More Pollutants Than Expected
Publication Type: News
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Author Name: Petron, Gabrielle
Other Authors: Gregory Frost and Jane Palmer
Contractor Name: Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Publication Year: 2012
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http://cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2012/Colorado_oil.html

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Annotation: This news article discusses a five year study in which NOAA scientists, monitoring the atmosphere’s composition at a tower north of Denver, found gas operations in the region leaked about twice as much methane into the atmosphere as previously estimated.
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