A wave of bills in state legislatures across the country aim to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” ...

New aerial monitoring of U.S. oil and gas production found that emissions of methane are more than four times higher than government estimates and eight times higher than the targets the industry ...

Washington — Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden ...

Carbon dioxide isn't the only culprit responsible for global warming. The U.S. is emitting more methane from oil and gas production than previously thought – and it's causing billions of dollars ...

Every time a cow burps or passes gas, a little puff of methane wafts into the atmosphere. Each of those puffs coming out of a cow’s plumbing, added together, can have a big effect on climate ...

Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would begin to roll back Obama-era regulations on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Under the current rules, oil and gas ...

An International study led by UAB researcher Ariane Arias-Ortiz, and published in Global Change Biology, has analysed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA.The ...

But Hmiel finds the result encouraging for almost the same reason: The more of the methane emissions that can be pinpointed to human activity like oil and gas extraction, the more control it means ...

Layers of methane gas sit trapped below permafrost in Arctic regions, but if they’re released, it could spell trouble for the rest of the world. As permafrost conditions change across the Arctic ...

Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and scientists are scrambling to figure out why there’s been such a dramatic increase of it in the atmosphere Methane is an ...