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On March 13, 2024, the US Energy Information Administration posted an article describing how winter storms disrupt US naturalgas production. Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S.
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