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The Danish Energy Agency said that 778 million cubic meters of natural gas could escape from leaks on three Nord Stream pipelines that run under the Baltic Sea, according to an initial estimate based on the worst-case scenario.

That amounts to the greenhouse-gas equivalent of about 14.6 million tons of carbon dioxide, or about 2% of all U.S. methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, agriculture, waste, and mining activities in 2020, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That would also equate to about 32% of Denmark’s total annual emissions, based on 2020 figures, the Danish agency said.

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