We just updated our page on natural gas with links to the latest studies showing that methane is far more potent for global warming than EPA considers it. Next time you're hearing how much natural gas is a transition fuel or that it's better than coal -- or that landfill gas should be burned for energy (which releases more methane than collecting and flaring it!) instead of keeping organics out of landfills -- bust out these studies to show that methane isn't just 21 times worse than CO2... it's 86-105 times worse! That's because we need to look at it over 20 years instead of 100 and account for the latest science showing that it's more potent than we thought, even over the same time frames.
