{"id":1010,"date":"2016-06-27T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:03:35","slug":"new-ma-legislation-may-force-utilities-to-repair-gas-leaks-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2016\/06\/27\/new-ma-legislation-may-force-utilities-to-repair-gas-leaks-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"New MA Legislation May Force Utilities to Repair Gas Leaks Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month the House approved a bill that would require utilities to fix nearly 16,000 gas leaks within the next five years. \u00a0A recent study by Boston University researchers, including Margaret Hendrick, a post-doctoral associate with the Institute for Sustainable Energy, helped to inform this legislation.\u00a0 The study found that about 7% of gas leaks contribute to nearly half of all the greenhouse gases attributable to leaks.\u00a0 Although the utility companies oppose the legislation, the bill is crucial in mitigating health and safety hazards as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Click <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/06\/19\/lawmakers-seek-crack-down-natural-gas-leaks\/AhhJOLWBLSuoQYk2phdy9H\/story.html\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the House approved a bill that would require utilities to fix nearly 16,000 gas leaks within the next five years. \u00a0A recent study by Boston University researchers, including Margaret Hendrick, a post-doctoral associate with the Institute for Sustainable Energy, helped to inform this legislation.\u00a0 The study found that about 7% of gas leaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[699],"tags":[139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}