New satellite images catch world’s worst polluters red-handed: ‘Now we really know exactly where it’s coming from’: Turkmenistan, India, Russia, Australia, and United States.
New satellite images catch world’s worst polluters red-handed: ‘Now we really know exactly where it’s coming from’: Turkmenistan, India, Russia, Australia, and United States.
Kayrros plans to continue its monitoring — and to share its findings with the world.
Clickbait title. The full quote is "Pursuing the where, what, and why of these polluting leaks has led Kayrros to gas wells, pipelines, coal mines, and waste sites in countries like Turkmenistan (home to the single largest oil and gas source), India, Russia, Australia, and the United States"
Why's China not on that list?
This is about specific sites' abnormally high methane pollution, and China is in the data set but does not have as many "super-emitters" according to this. Here's an example where China's listed in the linked Sky article:
Coal is also a problem with one facility in Shanxi, China, peaking at around 181 tonnes an hour last February.
However, they go on to rank the countries in the article as such:
Kayrros's data shows Turkmenistan had higher methane emissions than any other nation, followed by the United States, India, Russia and Pakistan.
So the answer is simply that China, along with the EU, does not have as many "super-emitters" to worry about. Other regions do, and that means they can target those sites specifically to reduce their methane emissions now that the data clearly highlights them.