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US environmental group wins millions to develop methane-monitoring satellite

The Environmental Defense Fund is working with researchers at Harvard University on the probe.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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A US environmental group has been awarded tens of millions of dollars to develop a new satellite to help track — and ultimately, reduce — emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas facilities around the world.

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Nature 556, 283 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04478-6

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