Skip to content
  • About the Project
  • Meet the Team
  • Partners
Support Us
  • Support Us
  • Inside Energy
  • Inside Energy
  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Data
  • Educators
  • IE Questions
  • IE Investigations
    • Energy According To Trump
    • Protesting The Pipeline: Standing Rock And The Dakota Access Pipeline
    • Your Natural Gas Boom Is Leaking
    • Feasting On Fuel
    • Reclamation Blues: The Lingering Legacy Of Fossil Fuels
    • Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
    • Denmark’s Road To Renewables
    • The Future Of Coal
    • The Fallout From Falling Oil Prices
    • The Oilfield Spill Problem
    • Energy And The New Congress
    • Boom 2.0
    • Dark Side Of The Boom
    • The Solar Challenge
    • The Pipeline Network
    • Coal Watch
  • Newsletter
  • Support Us
  • Get To Know Us
    • About the Project
    • Meet the Team
    • Partners

Inside Energy - Bringing energy reporting down to Earth

Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/2018/03/26/invisible-leaks-where-clean-natural-gas-falls-short/)

  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Data
  • Educators
  • IE Questions
  • IE Investigations
    • Energy According To Trump
    • Protesting The Pipeline: Standing Rock And The Dakota Access Pipeline
    • Your Natural Gas Boom Is Leaking
    • Feasting On Fuel
    • Reclamation Blues: The Lingering Legacy Of Fossil Fuels
    • Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
    • Denmark’s Road To Renewables
    • The Future Of Coal
    • The Fallout From Falling Oil Prices
    • The Oilfield Spill Problem
    • Energy And The New Congress
    • Boom 2.0
    • Dark Side Of The Boom
    • The Solar Challenge
    • The Pipeline Network
    • Coal Watch
  • Newsletter
AirWaterGas

Invisible Leaks: Where “Clean” Natural Gas Falls Short

By Dan Boyce Dan Boyce | March 26, 2018
More
  • More on AirWaterGas
  • Subscribe to AirWaterGas

Dan Boyce

A sign warns of a natural gas pipeline vent near Fort Lupton, Colorado.

New technologies, including fracking, have transformed the natural gas industry over the last decade, bringing down utility bills and creating countless jobs and other opportunities in shale fields around the country. Plus, the federal Energy Information Administration reports our natural gas boom is bringing down carbon emissions in the United States more than any other factor.

Yet, there’s a hitch. Natural gas — it’s a gas. It leaks. That leaking, which happens where natural gas is drilled, where it’s stored and where it’s piped, threatens to undermine the climate benefits of this “cleaner” fossil fuel if not taken seriously.

This audio special from Inside Energy takes a look at the threat leaks pose for the natural gas industry — how serious it really is, what anti-leak technologies have been developed and how effective landmark regulations developed in the state of Colorado have been in addressing the problem.

More
  • More on AirWaterGas
  • Subscribe to AirWaterGas

Related Series

Energy According To Trump

The Trump administration came into office promising to "unleash" American energy, to put coal miners back to work, to dismantle the regulatory "overreach" of federal government agencies. His policies will have a huge impact on energy production, distribution and consumption for the next four years, and we will be watching.

Podcast

Your Natural Gas Boom is Leaking

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is spewing from an underground natural gas storage field in southern California called Aliso Canyon, causing health problems and mass evacuations. This isn’t just California’s problem: It’s a wake-up call about challenges facing our vast, nationwide natural gas infrastructure. U.S. energy strategy hinges on the idea that burning natural gas has a smaller carbon footprint than coal–but that’s only true if no more than two to four percent of natural gas escapes. Inside Energy is covering the ongoing story of natural gas leaks in pursuit of the question, is natural gas truly a cleaner fossil fuel?

Tags
  • Audio
  • IE Investigations
  • Inside Energy News
  • AirWaterGas
  • Carbon Emissions
  • Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
  • donald trump
  • Energy Information Administration
  • Environmental Defense Fund
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • leaking
  • National Science Foundation
  • natural gas
  • NOAA

About Dan Boyce

Dan Boyce

Dan Boyce is Inside Energy's Colorado-based reporter. He's a native Montanan and worked previously at Montana Public Radio.

  • More by Dan

Read Next

  • What Do Energy States Want From Donald Trump?

    When it comes to energy, Donald Trump has left a lot to the imagination. But today he’s traveling to Bismarck, ND to address energy industry professionals from all across the country. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson reports.

Previous Post
Animations Make The Invisible, Visible
Next Post
Living With Uncertainty: An Inside Energy Podcast Special
Inside Energy is a collaborative journalism initiative of partners across the US and supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Inside Energy
  • About The Project
  • Meet The Team
  • Newsletter
  • Contact Us
  • Terms Of Use

Search This Site

Browse Archives

© Copyright 2025, Inside Energy

Inside Energy is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑