Burger King Unveils Whopper From Cows on Green Diet
For those seeking to tackle climate change and get a fast food fix, Burger King has the answer — a Whopper from cows that fart and burp less.
Read moreFor those seeking to tackle climate change and get a fast food fix, Burger King has the answer — a Whopper from cows that fart and burp less.
Read moreEmissions of methane — a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide — have risen by 9% in a decade driven by mankind’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday.
Read moreMethane emissions in a busy part of the nation’s largest oilfield were nearly three times higher than the national average in recent months, an environmental group said in an analysis released Tuesday.
Read moreMassive pockets of carbon trapped around the world under frozen soil and in the depths of the ocean have long worried climate scientists – but they may not be the threat to our atmosphere they have been made out to be.
Read moreFrom a good vantage point and weather permitting, anyone can take in the view and see for miles on end. But what about taking a sample of air from an ice core and peering into the 18th century?
Read moreFor two years a NASA aircraft scoured from the sky in search of deadly gas, but the mission was not over an alien planet: it searched for sources of methane in California.
Read moreA federal judge is considering whether to let a Colorado coal mine operate as planned in January 2020 or bar operations until methane flaring equipment is approved by a federal agency and installed, a delay that could cost 365 miners their jobs ahead of the holiday season.
Read moreMore than 50 faculty members at a prominent Texas university on Wednesday urged officials involved with a program that raises millions of dollars in oil and gas revenue for higher education to significantly reduce oilfield methane pollution.
Read moreA planned year-long study of methane emissions in the booming West Texas oil patch aims to paint a clearer picture of just how much of the climate change-causing pollutant is escaping from oil and gas sites.
Read moreUnraveling rules that it had tried for years to put on hold, the Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal Thursday to cut regulations on methane, the second most potent greenhouse gas that accelerates global warming.
Read moreMerging capitalism with conservation, a study released Monday proposes a football field-sized array of crystal arrays that can pull methane out of the Earth’s atmosphere could become a lucrative industry in the future.
Read moreMore than three years since the country’s largest methane gas blowout at the Aliso Canyon storage field, a new report released Friday found the leak was caused by a corroded pipe saturated with groundwater.
Read moreA group of small businesses said Southern California Gas Company should be held accountable for the ruinous losses they suffered in the wake of the most catastrophic gas leak in California history.
Read moreA state court judge in Los Angeles approved a deal Monday in which Southern California Gas Company will pay $120 million to state and local agencies over the 2015 Aliso Canyon methane gas blowout that forced thousands of residents to flee their homes.
Read moreThe Trump administration finalized plans Tuesday to unwind regulations aimed at preventing methane from leaking into the atmosphere.
Read moreCalifornia and New Mexico on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from rolling back an Obama-era rule that would curb air pollution from oil and gas wells on public land.
Read moreThe Trump administration released a proposal on Tuesday to roll back Obama-era rules designed to reduce leaks of climate-changing methane from oil and gas facilities.
Read moreWhile a major California utility company agreed to pay $119.5 million in penalties to settle California’s case over a massive methane leak at one of its storage facilities in 2015, state officials stressed Wednesday this does not address the claims of thousands of residents who were forced to flee their homes for months.
Read moreFifteen attorneys general and the city of Chicago sued the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday accusing it of failing to control methane emissions from existing oil and gas operations.
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