Greenhouse gas methane is behind a third of planetary heating and is relatively easy to slash. The tools to cut methane exist ...

Methane concentrations are rising faster than any other major greenhouse gas, with human activities driving at least two-thirds of global emissions, according to the 2024 Global Methane Budget.

Some methane comes from natural sources such as wetlands and volcanic gas. But the bulk of emissions are caused by human activity — agriculture, landfill waste and the fossil fuel industry.

STORY: Methane.It's rapidly rising levels in the atmosphere could threaten efforts to curb global warming by mid-century.:: ...

The world's warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a final rule that will implement the Waste Emissions Charge on ...

For the first time, oil and natural gas companies will have to pay a federal fee if their toxic methane emissions rise above ...

The world's major oil and gas companies have mostly vowed to stop leaking the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, but big loopholes in their pledges risk "exacerbating the ...

The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane - the primary component of natural gas - and thereby avoid paying. Methane is a climate ...

The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane — the primary component of natural gas — and thereby avoid paying. Methane is a climate ...

President Biden's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a new rule Tuesday, taxing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The new tax was born out of Biden's sweeping climate ...

Oil and gas producers who have already made progress on lowering their methane emissions over the last decade say further large-scale reductions will be tougher to deliver. The federal government ...