TheCable

EXPLAINER: What is methane, the gas behind Ogun school incident?

On Friday, academic activities at Anglican Girls Grammar School in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun state, were disrupted after students fled ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Federal regulators just finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaking from oil and gas wells — targeting the potent gas driving the fastest near-term warming

Somewhere in the Permian Basin right now, a valve is leaking methane into the open air. Under rules that governed the oil and ...
Click2Houston

What is methane gas and how does it affect our planet?

Methane is a greenhouse gas that pollutes the atmosphere. It has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years. This gas has a big impact on heating up the planet. Per unit of mass, methane can warm up ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A new US rule just cracked down on methane leaks from oil and gas wells — targeting the most potent pollutant the country lets slip into the sky

Every hour, oil and gas operations across the United States release methane into the atmosphere from leaking wellheads, aging ...

New York Leads in Controlling Heat-Trapping Methane. That Could Change.

An overhaul of the state’s 2019 climate law proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul would alter how the potent greenhouse gas is measured.
The New York Times

When We See the Climate More Clearly, What Will We Do?

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PBS

What to know about the COP28 deal to cut methane emissions

At COP28 on Saturday, 50 oil and gas companies — including industry giants ExxonMobil, Shell and BP — pledged to reduce methane emissions to “near zero” by 2030. At the same time, the Biden ...

Is Landfill Methane Or Car CO2 Worse For Climate Change?

Environmental agencies have been raising a lot of fuss about CO2 emissions from cars and transportation, but is it actually ...
The Hill

Methane leaks are supercharging the climate crisis — here’s what we must do, now

In the fight against climate change, the focus is usually on carbon dioxide, or CO 2 — and for good reason. It’s a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for years, trapping in heat for ...
Inside Climate News

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

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Dr. Stephen Conley, an atmospheric scientist and the founder ...
Mother Jones

Everything You Think You Know About Methane is Wrong

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and appears here ...