Source: Irina Ivanova, CBS NEWS, 8/18/21


Experts say slashing methane emissions is essential to staving off the worst effects of global warming, with the United Nations calling it "the strongest lever we have to slow climate change." Yet a new analysis of satellite data says fossil fuel companies — which contribute up to half of human-caused methane emissions around the globe — are falling far short of their pledges to eliminate the environmentally destructive hydrocarbon. 

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