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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Eric Kort, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, about methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry. Kort discusses the emissions that occur during the extraction of oil and gas at onshore and offshore facilities, aerial methods of measuring these emissions and identifying methane leaks, and the increasing concentration of methane in the atmosphere.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cExcess methane emissions from shallow water platforms elevate the carbon intensity of US Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production\u201d by Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Eric A. Kort, Yuanlei Chen, Adam R. Brandt, Mackenzie L. Smith, Genevieve Plant, Alana K. Ayasse, Stefan Schwietzke, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Catherine Hausman, and \xc1ngel F. Adames-Corraliza; https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215275120\n\n\u201cHere We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth\u201d by Oliver Jeffers; https://www.oliverjeffers.com/here-we-are