The fumes from normal natural gas use or an unintended leak not only can damage your health and indoor air quality, but it also has global implications.
The fumes from normal usage or an unintended leak can not only damage your health and indoor air quality, but also has global implications.
"We can start at the point of the leak. When the gas leaks into soils it will damage street trees. The tree roots need oxygen, and that gas leak displaces the oxygen and damages the street trees, trees in the yard," Dr. Nathan Phillips, professor at Boston University, says."And then as you go up and scale at the scale of the community, there are air quality degrades because of gas.
Phillips goes on to describe that the methane from natural gas is like carbon dioxide on steroids. Once it’s released into the atmosphere, it forms a blanket that contributes to further warming.
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