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b'In this week\\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Arvind Ravikumar, an associate professor at the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Ravikumar is a leading researcher on the topic of methane emissions from oil and gas systems; he recently coauthored a paper demonstrating how the US Environmental Protection Agency can better account for these emissions, which are notoriously hard to measure. Ravikumar and Raimi discuss federal policies that are designed to reduce methane emissions, along with the voluntary commitments made by some companies recently to do just that.\\n\\nReferences and recommendations:\\n\\n\\u201cClosing the methane gap in US oil and natural gas production emissions inventories\\u201d by Jeffrey S. Rutherford, Evan D. Sherwin, Arvind P. Ravikumar, Garvin A. Heath, Jacob Englander, Daniel Cooley, David Lyon, Mark Omara, Quinn Langfitt, and Adam R. Brandt; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25017-4\\n\\nComprehensive news coverage of Hurricane Ida in the Times-Picayune; https://www.nola.com/\\n\\n\\u201cAt least 350 oil and chemical spills reported in Louisiana waters after Hurricane Ida\\u201d by Tristan Baurick; https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_133c6d96-0f32-11ec-9642-0fb29acbbdba.html\\n\\nThe India Energy Hour podcast; https://www.101reporters.com/podcast/The_India_Energy_Hour\\n\\n\\u201cWhat do we hope to find when we look for a snow leopard?\\u201d by Kathryne Schulz; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/what-do-we-hope-to-find-when-we-look-for-a-snow-leopard'