Methane

Several non-profit groups have lambasted the new rule as a handout to the extractive industry.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to weaken Obama-era rules about leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

The leak, which began in October of 2015, led to the release of an estimated 109,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere.

The coalition of attorneys general argue the Trump administration has failed to fulfill its legal obligation to control methane emissions.

A study of a blowout site in the Netherlands offers safety lessons for natural gas fields around the world.

The facility has been out of commission since 2015.

The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and other environmental organizations filed the suit to prevent the EPA from suspending Obama-era regulations to reduce methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.

The regulation is expected to save taxpayers $330 million a year.

The oil and gas industry is the United States' biggest emitter of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Even on a good day, Southern California's natural gas infrastructure is a major greenhouse gas emitter.

Meet the man who provided the first estimations of the Porter Ranch gas leak.

A new study tells us how we can have both.

Saving the lake—and the two million people who live on its shores—will require something miraculous: a bilateral partnership between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A new study finds even more reason to fight global warming.

Empty the grounds, add some lye ... hey, you've got a methane trap going.

Last year, Simi Valley Landfill entered what is becoming a fast­-growing business of transforming fetid odors from decaying trash into fuel, a feat made possible by the miracles of modern chemistry and government subsidies.

Researchers find that harmful methane leaks into the air at twice the amounts estimated by the EPA.