As outlined by the EPA, excess methane produced in 2024 could result in a fee of $900 per ton, with fees rising to $1,200 per ton in 2025 and $1,500 per ton by 2026.

Andy Hodson is a methane hunter. As a professor of glaciology, he's documenting how ancient methane, trapped deep underground, is escaping at the edge of glaciers as they retreat. Hodson and his ...

The Biden administration issued a new fee on climate-warming methane pollution, but the EPA regulation faces an uncertain future under President-elect Trump ...

Over time, food is buried under other waste and decomposes in anaerobic conditions (without access to oxygen), creating a favorable environment for bacteria that produce methane, a greenhouse gas ...

Methane is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat over a timespan of 20 years, and accounts for about one-third of the 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 F) in warming that the ...

More than 155 countries have signed the pledge, representing nearly half the world's human-caused methane emissions. At the same time, the ability to measure methane pollution is improving rapidly.

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

Methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as from livestock, have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. Like carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that’s warming the ...

The county partnered with Qnergy, a local company based in Ogden, to convert methane gas from a closed landfill in West Ogden into usable power. "That landfill is producing low-grade fuel. That ...

Google is planning to use satellite data, AI technology, and computing power to map methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that's responsible for nearly a third of global warming ...

The EPA estimates about 25% of U.S. methane emissions come from the herds of livestock that produce milk, cheese, butter, ice cream and meat for human consumption.

More information: Yuanhong Zhao et al, Air pollution modulates trends and variability of the global methane budget, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09004-z ...