City Trees and Natural Gas Networks -- Boston, MA

Natural gas systems for residential heating and cooking are in the news again (recall it was 2018 when a number of homes exploded in Lawrence, MA; later attributed to faulty pipework). An article in the American Geophysical Union's EOS publication (21MAY21) discusses the longer-term demise of street trees in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston being attributed to natural gas system leaks in subsurface. There's a neat story here between the science of monitoring methane and translating this to action that protects human health (and safety) and the environment via both grassroots activism and policy-making. The attached PDF is the full EOS article that references journal papers, in case URL does not work.

https://eos.org/features/the-surprising-root-of-the-massachusetts-fight-against-natural-gas?mkt_tok=OTg3LUlHVC01NzIAAAF9UWffeP2bNt3tqsltajmHWgd9l9LO90cZALCcS_yngUM_2dSGOIgQL7fBVaJ7HUiUgJPfEEy1TUwrPY4N-dtIsiiuZeJiv9cgFsgMSv8

Related sites:

Gas Leaks Allies: https://www.gasleaksallies.org/who-we-are

HEET: https://heet.org/who-we-are/ and https://heet.org/gas-leaks/fix-big-gas-leaks/

The Surprising Root of the Massachusetts.

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