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A new satellite that will track climate-heating methane emissions from oil and gas companies around the world launched this week from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.
"Having this data is really going to be the key to holding countries and companies accountable for methane pollution, and giving them the information they need to take action," Mark Brownstein, the senior vice president of energy transition at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, which built and is operating the satellite, said in aUpon its release from the Falcon 9's upper stage on Monday, MethaneSAT deployed its solar panels and oriented itself toward the sun in order to...
"Methane emissions have been overlooked and hard to detect for far too long," Kelly Levin, chief of science, data and systems change at the Bezos Earth Fund, one of the largest contributors to MethaneSAT, said in aThe satellite was developed for $88 million by EDF in partnership with the New Zealand Space Agency, Harvard University, British aerospace company BAE Systems and Google.
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