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The article doesn’t seem to mention it, what are the super meters? What country are they located in and what are they doing?

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In this context "super-emitters" means strong outliers, locations or events where unusual amounts of something (i.e. methane) are being released.

This often correlates to either accidents that have not been detected/fixed, to deliberate pollution for financial again, or to something nobody realized was significant before.

> "to deliberate pollution for financial again"

What do these words mean? Why would anyone do it and how can they gain something? I am suspecting greenwashing, but please clarify if possible.

“Do deliberate”, I think. Like the mafia setting up a hazardous waste disposal company, and then simply dumping the waste into a ditch. Makes them a lot more money.

> “Do deliberate”

In this case it's "correlates to", rather than "correlates do".

"Thing {X} often correlates to {y}, to {z}, or to {w}."

I mean "deliberate pollution" not so much in the "evil villain who directly wants to ruin the environment" sense, and more like "I'd rather have $X in profit than spend anything to handle this properly, whatever happens next is somebody else's problem."

Mostly oil fields which are not or improperly flaring or gaz infrastructure which are leaking. Can also be landfills where decomposition create methane but still mostly the oil industry. For “normal” emitters, you can add to that cattle farms.

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