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Methane

Beef cattle are gathered in pens at the JBS Beef Plant in Greeley, Colo. The New York State Attorney General recently filed a lawsuit against JBS, the world’s largest beef company. Credit: Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

As Legal Challenges Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Notch Some Successes, Are Livestock Companies the Next Target?

By Georgina Gustin

Sharon Wilson of Oilfield Witness sets up her Optical Gas Imaging camera outside a ONEOK compressor station near the Waha Hub in Pecos County, Texas on March 16. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin

By Martha Pskowski

MethaneSAT launched via SpaceX's Transporter-10 on March 4. Credit: SpaceX

Q&A: What’s So Special About a New ‘Eye in the Sky’ to Track Methane Emissions

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

Volunteers plant a mix of native species trees in efforts to reforest abandoned coal mine lands of Appalachia in London, Kentucky. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Study Shows Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed

By Moriah McDonald

John Kerry acted as President Biden's special envoy for climate for three years. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

As the Presidential Election Looms, John Kerry Reckons With the Country’s Climate Past and Future

By Kiley Price

The data collected from MethaneSAT will be publicly available in near real-time. Credit: MethaneSAT

A New EDF-Harvard Satellite Will Monitor Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production Worldwide

By Phil McKenna

A new report says that the USDA's spending on methane digesters leads to larger dairy herds, which in turn produces more methane. Credit: Adam Glanzman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Biden Administration is Spending Its ‘Climate Smart’ Funding in the Wrong Places, According to New Analyses

By Georgina Gustin

A Waste Management dumpster is seen at the company's facility on Feb. 12 in Austin, Texas. In 2021, Waste Management sought to expand the Hawthorne Park Landfill in Houston. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

After Fighting a Landfill Expansion, Houston Residents Await EPA Consideration of Stricter Methane Regulations

By Keaton Peters

Activists stage a protest outside the Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. Activists urged the EPA to shut down operations of Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon storage facility, which had been leaking huge amount of methane, sickening residents in the neighboring Porter Ranch, Calif. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Why a Natural Gas Storage Climate ‘Disaster’ Could Happen Again

By Taylor Kate Brown, Floodlight

Workers in front of the Cricket Valley Power Plant in Wingdale, New York. Southern Tier Solutions wants to build up to a dozen new natural gas-fueled power plants in the state. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

Plan for Gas Drilling Spree in New York’s Southern Tier Draws Muted Response from Regulators, But Outrage From Green Groups

By Peter Mantius

In July 2002, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker, second from right, listens to a progress report on rescue efforts at Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania. At right is Joseph A. Braffoni, of the Bureau of Deep Mine Safety, second from left is Larry Winckler, center is David Hess, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection and at left is Jeffery Stanchek a mine rescue instructor for the DEP. They were coordinating efforts to reach nine miners trapped for three days. Credit: Gene J. Puskar/ AFP via Getty Images.

David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

By Jake Bolster

A view of cattle ruminating around a dairy farm in Escondido, Calif. Credit: Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images

Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway

By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference, speaks at a presentation of the Industrial Transition Accelerator on Saturday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Government, Corporate and Philanthropic Interests Coalesce On Curbing Methane Emissions as Calls at COP28 for Binding Global Methane Agreement Intensify

By Phil McKenna

A large screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing shows news coverage of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, after China and the United States released a joint statement of cliimate cooperation. Credit: Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

Can US, China Climate Talks Spur Progress at COP28?

By Bob Berwyn, Phil McKenna and Nicholas Kusnetz

Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

Covered manure lagoons or dairy digesters capture methane emissions as cow manure decomposes. The black plastic tarps at the North Dumas Farms appear to be collecting biogas as of November, 2022, but it remains unclear if the gas is being flared or injected into a gas pipeline for use as fuel. Credit: Google Earth

A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

The Brandt Cattle Company feedyard in Southern California’s Imperial Valley composts dry manure in an open field, a process that avoids nearly all methane production and emissions from the feedlot's manure. Credit: Google Earth

California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.

By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous

The Nestor farm in Taylor County, where methane from a coal mine below is being vented in a tall white pipe next to the back porch. Mining dried up the farm's water well, which the Nestors used to water their cattle, a lawsuit claims. Credit: James Bruggers

Little Publicized but Treacherous, Methane From Coal Mines Upends the Lives of West Virginia Families

By James Bruggers

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