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Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasured

  • Written by Gunnar W. Schade, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Routine gas flaring is wasteful, polluting and undermeasuredFlaring gas at an oil production site outside Williston, North Dakota.Andrew Burton/Getty Images

If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring – the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a...

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