methane

The Waste Emissions Charge rule follows several others that limit methane emissions at oil and gas sites. Wyoming is also challenging those regulations in court.

When talking about climate change, carbon dioxide often takes center stage. But methane is actually a bigger problem. A project in southwest Wyoming intends to address it with the help of new federal funds.

Methane is a strong climate-warming pollutant. And a new study shows oil and gas operations in the Mountain West and beyond are leaking a lot more of it than the government thinks.

As methane emissions from the oil and gas sector increase worldwide, a new report shows that existing technologies could make big emissions reductions at a cost that's a drop in the bucket for Big Oil.

This new rule aims to limit leaking, flaring and venting of the potent greenhouse gas, while wringing more in royalties from the companies extracting natural gas.

The UN Climate Conference, also called COP 26, is underway in Glasgow, Scotland. The global discussion around climate change may affect Mountain West energy sources and trade in the long term.

Jonah Energy is aiming to more precisely measure its methane emissions. The oil and gas development and exploration company operating in Sublette County is making the effort as a way toward reducing the problematic greenhouse gas emission.

Methane has a larger impact on global warming than carbon dioxide. Some states are releasing a lot of it through abandoned oil and gas wells, but a new…

Over the last few years, oil production has spiked in the U.S., with help from states such as Wyoming and Colorado. And the boom brought a nearly 50…

The Trump Administration is looking to change Obama-era national air quality standards for the oil and gas industry that limited methane - a pollutant…