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Methane

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on Feb. 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Texas Pipeline Operators Released or Flared Tons of Gas to Avert Explosions During Heatwave

By Dylan Baddour

Beyond Methane RVA volunteer Megan Stueber measures for gas leaks while Lee Williams hands out informative flyers on methane leaks on Grove Avenue on June 9, 2023. Credit: Ananya Chetia

Methane Activists in Richmond Detect Potentially Dangerous Gas Leaks

By Ananya Chetia

Trash is flattened and spread out across a hilllside before being covered with dirt at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Credit: Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Federal Regulations Fail to Contain Methane Emissions from Landfills

By Phil McKenna, Amy Green

A pump jack works in Texas' Permian Basin as the EPA proposes a new rule to reduce methane leaks in oil and gas operations. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector

By Martha Pskowski

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at the campaign launch event for 'We Love NYC' in Times Square on March 20, 2023 in New York City. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

New York Could Change How It Measures Methane. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

By Kristoffer Tigue

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.

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

By Martha Pskowski

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

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