An artist’s rendering of MethaneSAT, a satellite EDF is building to track and measure methane worldwide, in orbit above Earth with a starry sky in the background.
Methane

Cutting methane pollution to slow climate change

Methane pollution by the numbers

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    How much more potent methane is than carbon dioxide in the near term

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    Cost of wasted gas emitted by U.S. oil and gas companies per year, enough to fuel 10 million homes in the U.S.

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    Amount of methane reductions the oil and gas industry can achieve globally using technologies available today, two-thirds of it at no net cost

Our work slashing global methane emissions

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Our methane experts

We bring wide-ranging perspectives and skills to our work on methane. Meet some of the people who make it happen.

Staff perspective

By emitting even a little bit of methane, humankind is greatly accelerating the rate of climate change.

Steven Hamburg

Chief Scientist

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