Why a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again
Jan 30, 2024 / Inside Climate News / Story by By Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight
A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky wells across the United States
On a November afternoon in 2022, a 57-year old well tapped into an underground natural gas storage reservoir in western Pennsylvania started leaking, fast enough that people a few miles away heard a loud, jet engine-like noise.