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Methane

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica

A blackened pipe with a large gout of flame swirling out of the top.
Hydrocarbon storage tanks—like this one in the backyard of a home in Arvin, Calif., and next to a playground—pose a disproportionate health risk when they leak. In addition to the climate super-pollutant methane, they emit a cocktail of toxic gases, including the carcinogen benzene. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

A PEMEX oil refinery is seen on April 8 in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images

EPA Delays Compliance with Methane Rule, Fulfilling Oil and Gas Industry’s Request

By Aidan Hughes

Patrick Hanks, chief technology officer of Graphitic Energy, talks about the carbon formation vessel on the company’s San Antonio pilot project, which pulls solid carbon graphite out of methane gas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

By Dylan Baddour

Beef cattle graze near a machine that releases a seaweed supplement and measures methane emissions on a ranch in Dillon, Mont. Credit: Paulo de Méo Filho/UC Davis

Seaweed Could Reduce Methane Emissions from Grazing Cattle, New Study Shows

By Miranda Lipton

Energy Intelligence, a liquefied natural gas tanker, docks at Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG export terminal in Cameron, La. on Feb. 26 to refill its cargo holds before departing for Eemshaven in the Netherlands. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas

By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous

Hunter Mullens is pictured inside a vehicle

As Trump Promotes ‘Clean Beautiful Coal,’ a  Lit Cigarette Above a West Virginia Coal Mine Leaves a Woman Fighting for Her Life

By James Bruggers

Kathy Love, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission director, speaks at the agency’s meeting on Thursday in Jasper, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A Year After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Extends Deadline for Coal Companies to Monitor Methane Gas Above Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

For the First Time, Alabama Says Methane ‘Likely’ Caused Fatal Home Explosion Above Coal Mine

By Lee Hedgepeth

Annabel Williams, an apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, interacts with some of the cows during her chores round on Sept. 17, 2024.

Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

Story and photos by Matilda Hay

Gas is burned from a flare stack at the Air Liquide gas plant in Pasadena, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Congress Set to Vote on Repeal of Biden Administration Climate Regulations

By Nicholas Kusnetz

GOP Lawmakers Seek to Roll Back Methane Fee

By Phil McKenna

In Oak Grove, Alabama, the home of W.M. Griffice was destroyed in March by an explosion his attorneys allege was caused by methane leaking from a longwall coal mine beneath the property. Photo Courtesy of the Alabama Fire Marshal's Office.

Failure of State: For Decades, Alabama’s Mining Regulator Has Left Citizens Unprotected

By Lee Hedgepeth

A panel presents the United Nations Methane Report at the COP29 climate conference on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future

By Phil McKenna

A view of the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. New research shows a large chunk of global methane emissions are from rotting vegetation in tropical wetlands. Credit: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images

Surging Methane Emissions Could Be a Sign of a Major Climate Shift

By Bob Berwyn

When a Glacier Melts, What Does It Leave Behind?

By Kiley Price

A drilling operation is surrounded by large noise dampening walls near Frederick, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Low-Emission ‘Gas Certification’ Is Greenwashing, Climate Advocates Conclude in a Contested New Report

By Phil McKenna

An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money

Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills

By Lisa Sorg

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