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US gas pipeline leaks occur every 40 hours: report
U.S. natural gas pipelines are experiencing the equivalent of one leak every 40 hours, a new report has found. From 2010 to 2021, almost 2,600 such leaks occurred that were serious enough to require federal reporting — with 850 resulting from fires and 328 from explosions, according to the study, released by U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (U.S. PIRG) Educational Fund. These incidents killed 122 people and injured 603, with total costs in property damage, emergency services and the value of unintentionally released gas totaling nearly $4 billion, the authors observed. Such events also led to the leakage of 26.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas — the equivalent to more than

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