la gas leak: worst in us history spewed as much pollution as 600,000 cars /

Published at 2016-02-26 19:23:29

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Emissions from Aliso Canyon leak,which took 112 days to plug, totalled 97100 tonnes of methane – equal to annual output of a medium-sized EU countryA natural gas leak in the mountains above Los Angeles was one of the worst accidental discharges of greenhouse gases in US history. A new study shows the months-long catastrophe resulted in 97100 metric tonnes of methane being dumped into the atmosphere.
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Source: theguardian.com

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