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A thermal image of SF6-containing electrical equipment at a Duke Energy substation. The image does not show any leaks. Credit: Phil McKenna

Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities

By Phil McKenna

A thermal image of SF6-containing electrical equipment at a Duke Energy substation. The image does not show any leaks. Credit: Phil McKenna

How a Successful EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled

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

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

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 air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

International Commission Votes to Allow Use of More Climate-Friendly Refrigerants in AC and Heat Pumps

By Phil McKenna

Ski Dubai at the Emirates Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in October 2005. Credit: ITP Images /Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

US Blocks Illegal Imports of Climate Damaging Refrigerants With New Rules

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

Natural gas is flared at a gas compressor station in the Badlands of North Dakota outside the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 30, 2021. Pipeline capacity issues in the state are a primary reason for flaring, according to Loren Wickstrom, field manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s North Dakota field office. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

Oil and Gas Companies ‘Flare’ or ‘Vent’ Excess Natural Gas. It’s Like Burning Money—and it’s Bad for the Environment

By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt

A flare burns near Cotulla, Texas, on Oct. 26, 2021. The South Texas town is located within the Eagle Ford Shale, one of the country’s top oil and gas-producing regions. Credit: Aydali Campa/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How Greenhouse Gases Released by the Oil and Gas Industry Far Exceed What Regulators Think They Know 

By Laura Kraegel, Mollie Jamison and Aydali Campa

A Florida Chemical Plant Has Fallen Behind in Its Pledge to Cut Emissions of a Potent Greenhouse Gas

By Phil McKenna

Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. Credit: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images

To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends

By Phil McKenna

An aerial photo taken on Sept. 12, 2021 shows a chemical factory being dismantled and relocated along the Grand Canal in Huai 'an City, East China's Jiangsu Province. Credit: He Jinghua / Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China Moves to Freeze Production of Climate Super-Pollutants But Lacks a System to Monitor Emissions

By Phil McKenna

Chemical plants in the Rubbertown area of Louisville stand near the Ohio River in February 2018 during flood conditions on the river. The Chemours chemical plant is located within the wedge-shaped Chemours property in the lower half of the photo. Credit: Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal

Chemours’ Process for Curtailing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Produce Hazardous Air Pollutants in Louisville

By James Bruggers, Phil McKenna

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