Below are five insider tips that can prevent you from getting ripped off, but read on before skipping to the good stuff. Your furnace is one of the most expensive appliances youâll ever buy for your home, due to the intense labor and all of the materials that are necessary for a proper installation.
Photo: Daniel Foster/Flickr. Critics of the natural gas extraction technique known as fracking have long criticized it for leaking too much methane â a potent greenhouse gas â into the atmosphere during the extraction process.he Environmental Protection Agency recently estimated that natural gas operations emitted about 145 million metric tons of methane in 2011, making it the biggest source of these emissions in the country.
In the first two decades after its release, methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Both types of emissions must be addressed if we want to effectively reduce the impact of climate change. 1  About 25% of the manmade global warming weâre experiencing today is caused by methane emissions.*.