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Otsego 2000’s Dillingham Testifies

To EPA On Dangers Of Natural Gas

Dilllingham
Dilllingham

COOPERSTOWN – Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, was in Pittsburgh today testifying against a proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that she said ” invites a major conversion to natural gas throughout the country because natural gas.”

“However,” she said, “methane itself is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and the environmental damage caused by the extraction, processing and waste disposal associated with natural gas use were not even considered by the EPA.”

READ OTSEGO 2000’S TESTIMONY ON NATURAL GAS

 

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