Natural Gas Drilling CO2 leaks Bogus : EPA Still Wrong

How bad are the effects of 'green house gases' anyway? Exactly who has determined what is the measurement of this gas in our atmosphere, and it's effect on the environment? The EPA? Really? A department of like minded individuals that marches to the tune of Democrat National Committee. 

Is this like the global warming nightmare of managed facts of East Anglia, all based on the rise of green house gases, the famed hockey stick graph, from the smartest in the world that were demanding we must do something before we all die in the next several years, which just happened to be more than a decade ago. Is this the same group of people that are now demanding 'fracking' cease before we all die again from more green house gases?

Oh wait, are these the same people that said the Polar Bears will all be gone as the ice caps melt away in 3 years, rising the sea levels to flood the city of New York and all of the East Coast? That was 5 years ago. And why would anyone believe anything that comes from the EPA that  isn't completely fictional? The EPA has no reason to product any documents that have any resemblance to reality.

The EPA rulings aren't about science or the environment, the EPA is the alternative to Mr Obama's failed Cap and Trade policy where he declared fossil fuels must be eliminated. He couldn't get it done by congressional law so he 'declares' it done by the EPA ruling under the Clean Air Act.

Please explain how one unelected person can proclaim that a certain a material that is common everywhere in our environment, carbon dioxide, we exhale this stuff, as a hazard to our environment and must be controlled with tax dollars and regulation and uses 'consensus' a scientific proof. And yet millions of our citizens believe and vote for more of the same.

What exactly is the definition of insanity - - - !!!

Gas-Drilling Leaks Overstated
Source: Russell Gold, "U.S. Overstates Leaks by Gas-Drillers," Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2013. David T. Allen et al., "Measurements of Methane Emissions at Natural Gas Production Sites in the United States," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2013.
September 20, 2013

Natural gas drilling sites aren't leaking as much methane into the atmosphere as the federal government and critics of hydraulic fracturing had believed, says the Wall Street Journal.
The study, led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is likely to ease some concerns about the impact of natural gas extraction on the climate.

• Measuring emissions at 190 sites, the study found less "fugitive methane" than previous work by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and some university researchers, which relied on estimates.
• Methane, the primary ingredient in natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas.
• The measurements of gas emissions found that wells emitted about 20 percent less greenhouse gases than the EPA had estimated -- which is less than the amount emitted by burning coal.
• The study also found much higher-than-expected leakage from pneumatic switches, which are used to turn equipment on and off at well sites.

David Allen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Texas and lead researcher, said he believed the better data will help guide policymakers.