Methane doesn’t get top billing in the global climate debate, but it’s a more potent greenhouse gas than headline-grabbing carbon dioxide and the major component of natural gas that heats our homes and generates our electricity. Harvard scientist Steven Wofsy is heading a project to both track escaped methane from our natural gas infrastructure and better understand carbon dioxide exhaust in the Boston area, neighborhood by neighborhood.
To read more, visit http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/hunting-polluting-gases-around-boston/.