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Methane

As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules

In 2021, New Mexico adopted regulations that were viewed as a model for reducing methane emissions from the flaring and venting of natural gas. But on the ground, watchdogs say they don’t see much of a change in oil and gas companies’ practices.

By Martha Pskowski

A malfunctioning flare at a tank battery in the New Mexico Permian Basin, photographed on Feb. 6, 2023. Incomplete combustion in a flare, as pictured, generates more emissions. Credit: WildEarth Guardians.
Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups and Native Leaders Say Proposed Venting and Flaring Rule Falls Short

By Autumn Jones

A flare stack is pictured next to pump jacks and other oil and gas infrastructure on April 24, 2020 near Odessa, Texas. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’

By Martha Pskowski

In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

A fracking operation takes place on leased farm land near Dimock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Residents Fear New Methane Contamination as Pennsylvania Lifts Its Gas-Drilling Ban in the Township of Dimock

By Jon Hurdle

A methane flare at an oil refinery. Credit: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images

New EPA Proposal to Augment Methane Regulations Would Help Achieve an 87% Reduction From the Oil and Gas Industry by 2030

By Phil McKenna

A gas leak causes bubbles on the surface of the water at Sea in Sweden on Sept. 29, 2022. Credit: Swedish Coast Guard / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

A New Study from China on Methane Leaks from the Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipelines Found that the Climate Impact Was ‘Tiny’ and Nothing ‘to Worry About’

By Phil McKenna

Steve Shehadey, owner of Bar 20 Dairy Farm, walks through the feedlot on his farm. Credit: Grace van Deelen

Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters

By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant

Dairy cows have just been milked in Bar 20's milking barn. Credit: Grace van Deelen

California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen

Bubbles, formed by rising methane gas, are seen frozen in the ice on a lake. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

Methane Hunters: What Explains the Surge in the Potent Greenhouse Gas?

By Leslie Hook and Chris Campbell, The Financial Times

Increasing runoff of frigid meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is disrupting an Atlantic Ocean current that moves warm and cold water between the Arctic and the Southern Ocean, which could lead to more thawing of frozen methane in partially organic seabed sediments, a new study suggests. Credit: Patrick Robert/Corbis via Getty Images

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health collected canisters of natural gas directly from gas stoves throughout the Greater Boston region. The chemical makeup of the gas was analyzed in a lab. Credit: Brett Tyron

Natural Gas Samples Taken from Boston-Area Homes Contained Numerous Toxic Compounds, a New Harvard Study Finds

By Hannah Loss

Every Hour, This Gas Storage Station Sends Half a Ton of Methane Into the Atmosphere

By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News and Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today

Livestock outside of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice

By Grace van Deelen

A worker with OC Waste & Recycling watches as a screening machine separates decomposed green waste at the new composting operation at a landfill in Irvine on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. Credit: Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil

By Grace van Deelen

Smoke billows from smokestacks and a coal fired generator at a steel factory on Nov. 19, 2015 in the industrial province of Hebei, China. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals

By Phil McKenna

An aerial view of a coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales on November 1, 2021. Credit: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

Coal Mining Emits More Super-Polluting Methane Than Venting and Flaring From Gas and Oil Wells, a New Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

A sign welcomes passersby to an “Energy Sacrifice Zone” outside of Counselor, New Mexico, on Oct. 26, 2021. The Greater Chaco region has become a flashpoint between environmental activists and the oil and gas industry, which is expanding into the oil-rich land. Credit: Jimmy Cloutier/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

New Mexico Wants it ‘Both Ways,’ Insisting on Environmental Regulations While Benefiting from Oil and Gas

By Isabel Koyama, Sarah Suwalsky, Jimmy Cloutier and Zach Van Arsdale

Flares light up the landscape after sunset on an oil patch in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 27, 2021. North Dakota’s 2014 gas capture plan attempted to reduce flaring in the state, including on tribal land. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How One Native American Tribe is Battling for Control Over Flaring

By Isaac Stone Simonelli, Maya Leachman and Andrew Onodera

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