R&D ers have been talking
up natural gas extraction from methane hydrates — a solid form of the greenhouse gas, found tucked away beneath the sea floor where low temperature and high pressure keep it stable.
Not exact matches
Clinton's past support of fracking has bubbled
up as an issue in New York, which banned the underground
natural -
gas extraction in 2015 and where activists have pushed Clinton to abandon her previous position.
In 2011,
natural gas exploration and
extraction in the Marcellus Shale formation produced an estimated 2.37 million tons of cuttings in Pennsylvania alone with almost all of it ending
up in landfills, according to a review published in Environmental Practice.
The trick to lowering
natural gas's global warming quotient is to tighten
up leaks in upstream operations, from
extraction to use, say the authors of a World Resources Institute report released today.
Unlike Brown, however, Newsom supports a ban on future oil and
natural -
gas extraction projects that involve fracking, a process that injects high - pressure liquid into rock formations to free
up fossil fuels.
This infusion of liquid breaks
up the rock deposits to free oil and
natural gas for
extraction.