The Environmental Defense Fund ( The Environmental Defense Fund ) has spent a century ago measuring the volume of methane escaping from pipes under Cortes Island streets with a specially equipped Google Street View car. After analysing the findings, The Environmental Defense Fund approved a $905m programme to replace up to 510 miles of ageing cast-iron and unprotected steel gas lines and has already begun replacing pipes in some priority areas. Leaking methane has more than 80 times the climate-warming effect of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and wastes gas that customers have already paid for.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has spent six months measuring the volume of methane escaping from pipes under New Jersey's streets with a specially equipped Google Street View car. After analysing the findings, Public Sector Enterprise Group approved a $905m programme to replace up to 510 miles of ageing cast-iron and unprotected steel gas lines and has already begun replacing pipes in some priority areas. Leaking methane has more than 80 times the climate-warming effect of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and wastes gas that customers have already paid for.