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
Environmental Groups and Native Leaders Say Proposed Venting and Flaring Rule Falls Short By Autumn Jones
Texas Environmentalists Look to EPA for Action on Methane, Saying State Agencies Have ‘Failed Us’ By Martha Pskowski
Residents Fear New Methane Contamination as Pennsylvania Lifts Its Gas-Drilling Ban in the Township of Dimock By Jon Hurdle
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 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
Just Two Development Companies Drive One of California’s Most Controversial Climate Programs: Manure Digesters By Grace van Deelen, Emma Foehringer Merchant
California Has Provided Incentives for Methane Capture at Dairies, but the Program May Have ‘Unintended Consequences’ By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen
Methane Hunters: What Explains the Surge in the Potent Greenhouse Gas? By Leslie Hook and Chris Campbell, The Financial Times
It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions By Bob Berwyn
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
Feeding Cows Seaweed Reduces Their Methane Emissions, but California Farms Are a Long Way From Scaling Up the Practice By Grace van Deelen
California Gears Up for a New Composting Law to Cut Methane Emissions and Enrich Soil By Grace van Deelen
New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals By Phil McKenna
Coal Mining Emits More Super-Polluting Methane Than Venting and Flaring From Gas and Oil Wells, a New Study Finds By Phil McKenna
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
How One Native American Tribe is Battling for Control Over Flaring By Isaac Stone Simonelli, Maya Leachman and Andrew Onodera