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Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases "Fugitive methane" released during shale gas drilling could accelerate climate change. Robert Howarth, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, and Anthony Ingraffea, a civil and environmental engineer, reported that fracked wells leak 40 to 60 percent more methane than conventional natural gas wells. When water with its chemical load is fo…