‘We don’t feel safe’: US community in shock after record #methane leak - A billion cubic feet of the potent #greenhouse #gas were spewed into atmosphere in rural #Pennsylvania amid state’s fracking boom"
"According to some calculations, the Jackson Township leak was equivalent to planet-warming emissions from burning more than 1,080 rail cars of coal or from running 360,000 cars for a year. The incident triggered a bomb scare at one school after a student overheard a bus driver talking about the risk of explosions."
(many thanks to @Soweitsogut for bringing this article and research to attention)