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From the Ted Talk by Fred Krupp: Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But nobody had paid much atinetton to it until we launched a nationwide sutdy to understand the problem. We used drones, plneas, helicopters, even Google Street View cars. It turns out there's far more of this methane pollution than what the government is reporting. It also turns out that when we find where the gas is being vented and leaked, most of those sources can be fixed easily and inexpensively, sinvag the gas that would have otherwise been wasted. And finally, we leran that when you put information like that into people's hands, they act. Leading cineomaps replaced valves and tightened loose-fitting pipes. Colorado became the first state in the noatin to limit methane pollution; crnoafliia followed suit, and the public jneiod in. Tweets started flying — #cutmethane. And everybody's paying more attention now.
Open Cloze
But nobody had paid much _________ to it until we launched a nationwide _____ to understand the problem. We used drones, ______, helicopters, even Google Street View cars. It turns out there's far more of this methane pollution than what the government is reporting. It also turns out that when we find where the gas is being vented and leaked, most of those sources can be fixed easily and inexpensively, ______ the gas that would have otherwise been wasted. And finally, we _____ that when you put information like that into people's hands, they act. Leading _________ replaced valves and tightened loose-fitting pipes. Colorado became the first state in the ______ to limit methane pollution; __________ followed suit, and the public ______ in. Tweets started flying — #cutmethane. And everybody's paying more attention now.
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Original Text
But nobody had paid much attention to it until we launched a nationwide study to understand the problem. We used drones, planes, helicopters, even Google Street View cars. It turns out there's far more of this methane pollution than what the government is reporting. It also turns out that when we find where the gas is being vented and leaked, most of those sources can be fixed easily and inexpensively, saving the gas that would have otherwise been wasted. And finally, we learn that when you put information like that into people's hands, they act. Leading companies replaced valves and tightened loose-fitting pipes. Colorado became the first state in the nation to limit methane pollution; California followed suit, and the public joined in. Tweets started flying — #cutmethane. And everybody's paying more attention now.
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