The initial findings of the Tanager-1 satellite are in. They’ve detected methane plumes in Pakistan, Texas and South Africa. Host Marco Werman speaks with Riley Duren, a former NASA engineer and now ...

Methane is the second most important contributor to climate change. Accounting for roughly 20 percent of human-caused GHG emissions, methane has a global warming potential 80 times more powerful ...

One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without regulation. In fact, not only do the state’s largest dairies face no penalties ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.

The regulations, issued under the landmark Clean Air Act anti-pollution law, aim to cut mercury and other metals from coal-fired power plants emissions, as well methane and other gases known as ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday declined to put on hold Biden administration rules slashing methane pollution from the oil and gas industry while those rules are being challenged.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Biden administration to continue enforcing, for the time being, a new rule that aims to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from new ...

At the same time, the justices turned down a similar request from Oklahoma and industry groups to block an EPA rule that seeks to regulate emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ...

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to continue to enforce a rule allowing the agency to cut methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. The high court allowed ...

The case on methane arose from a rule the E.P.A. issued in March that gave states two years to submit their own plans for cutting methane emissions from oil and gas facilities and included ...

Methane can be used, for example, to heat apartments or as a starting material in the chemical industry. It is also the main component of natural gas. If it is produced using green electricity ...