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The devices will be installed in 12 stations across Egypt, under the "Air Pollution and Climate Change Management in Greater Cairo" project, she added. The monitoring stations, which belong to the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), extend from north of Cairo at the borders of the Delta to southern Helwan.
Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Eng. Karim Badawi, US Ambassador to Cairo Hiro Mustafa Garg, and Ambassador Dr. Sameh Abu El-Enein, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration for American Affairs, witnessed the signing ceremony of a grant agreement provided by the US Trade and Development Agency worth $959,006.
The US oil and gas industry leaks 60 percent more methane than official government estimates, a report said Thursday.
