“Researchers from Duke revealed today that they had discovered nearly 5,900 gas leaks under the streets of Washington DC , including 12 that posed a serious risk of explosion. And it’s not just Washington: a gas industry whistleblower who is part of the team showed this was happening in cities all over America .” New research today says the nation’s capital, notorious for leaking state secrets, has thousands of leaks of another sort: methane from natural gas pipelines. More than 5,800 leaks from aging pipelines were found under Washington, D.C.’s streets by scientists from Duke University and Boston University, who dispatched a car equipped with measuring instruments across the city last January and February. Their findings appear in this week’s peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology. The researchers found 19 of the leaks had high concentrations of methane, a potent heat-trapping greenhouse gas […]