Title is clickbait. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management saying "there is no permanent facility allowed to do this" is not mystifying.
> The Oct. 22 release was detected by satellite and pinpointed to an area in Marion County near natural gas wells in the Black Warrior Basin, a pair of gas pipelines and coal mines.
Read: it's almost certainly gas from the mines.
> The Alabama release is the fifth largest detected by the ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite this year in the lower 48 U.S. states, according to Kayrros.
"Fifth largest in this part of the country" is... not news.
> The Alabama Department of Environmental Management wasn’t able to identify a permanent facility that would be responsible for any releases after a diligent review of its records.
This isn't even a "they don't know" it's just a "they didn't tell us."
> The Oct. 22 release was detected by satellite and pinpointed to an area in Marion County near natural gas wells in the Black Warrior Basin, a pair of gas pipelines and coal mines.
Read: it's almost certainly gas from the mines.
> The Alabama release is the fifth largest detected by the ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite this year in the lower 48 U.S. states, according to Kayrros.
"Fifth largest in this part of the country" is... not news.
> The Alabama Department of Environmental Management wasn’t able to identify a permanent facility that would be responsible for any releases after a diligent review of its records.
This isn't even a "they don't know" it's just a "they didn't tell us."
C'mon Bloomberg...