Methane Emissions
As part of the Trump administration’s deregulatory blitz, Congress scrapped a key climate policy from the Biden era.
A landmark court ruling earlier this year found that European governments must act on climate. A new lawsuit targets a lack of limits on gas imports.
A highly-anticipated peer-reviewed study finds that LNG has a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33 percent larger than coal. The data suggests the expansion of LNG is a major threat for the climate.
A new analysis finds that Azerbaijan, which is set to host the COP29 international climate negotiations in November, plans on increasing its emissions by more than 20 percent through 2030.
Nigeria must urgently address rising methane emissions from its oil and gas sector to meet its climate goals and reduce methane emissions, a report by the Nigerian Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) has said.
A new satellite, just launched into space by Carbon Mapper, can even detect methane leaks at specific pieces of equipment. Experts say it will bolster methane monitoring and may accelerate climate action.
The planned new Tanzania-Uganda gas pipeline is set to boost energy security and the economy, but raises environmental concerns and potentially delays renewable investments.
U. S. gas producers, using third-party “certified gas” pollution monitoring, claim they are cleaning up their operations. But an investigation by environmental NGOs in Colorado found pollution events that are not picked up by monitors.
The state is held up as a model for reducing pollution from oil and gas sites because of a ban on routine flaring. But video evidence and legal challenges indicate that Colorado natural gas flaring continues — and state regulators are not keeping up.
Iraq alone is responsible for around 13% of global gas flaring, according to the World Bank.
State-run QatarEnergy has announced a third LNG expansion plan, but Qatar has yet to tackle emerging risks including regulation on methane emissions.
A recently filed lawsuit alleges that a Colorado firm loaded up its clean-up liabilities onto another shell company that was designed to fail, saddling landowners and taxpayers with old polluting oil and gas wells.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency said that the fossil fuels sector is not doing enough to cut methane emissions from oil and gas. Rapid cuts would yield enormous climate benefits.
The head of the International Energy Agency Faith Birol said that the oil and gas industry needs to slash emissions from its operations and show that it is serious at the COP28 summit.
Using an optical gas imaging camera, which detects pollutants that are otherwise invisible, Earthworks found extensive emissions including methane pollution from U.S. LNG export terminals in Louisiana.