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Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division published the final 2024 Intensity Verification Protocol — a document providing guidance to oil and gas producers on how to comply with the state’s GHG Intensity Verification Rule that the Air Quality Control Commission adopted last year.

Leaders from the U.S. Department of Transportation received a clear message from more than 85,000 public comments urging the agency to finalize its Gas Pipeline Advanced Leak Detection and Repair Rule by the summer.

Two high profile studies released this week by the National Petroleum Council paint a portrait of an industry asserting a positive role in the energy transition but struggling to act on what good science demands of it. The studies — one on natural gas, the other on hydrogen — were produced at the request of …

Governments and regulators should recognize oil and gas mergers as an important inflexion point to ensure environmental harm is minimized and emissions are reduced.

The number of liquid natural gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas is growing. President Biden has issued a temporary pause on approvals for new facilities to better assess the risks they pose to climate and the health of local communities. 

Statement of Rosalie Winn, EDF Director and Lead Counsel for Methane and Clean Air Policy

What’s new: EDF’s Global Clean Air team was proud to launch the Sall Methane and Health project in March of 2024, a new collaboration funded by the Sall Family Foundation to track the health impacts of methane emitted by the oil and gas industry in Mexico. Key partners in the project include: The Centro Mexicano …

This blog was co-authored by Maureen Lackner (Senior Manager of Economics and Policy Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund) and Lauren Beatty (High Meadows Postdoctoral Economics Fellow, Environmental Defense Fund). Climate change is a pressing issue, partly fueled by methane: a greenhouse gas responsible for about 30% of today’s global warming. Reducing methane emissions will slow down …

Coalition of environmental groups support national efforts to reduce methane waste on public lands.

Creating the right financial instruments can enable cash-constrained national oil companies to pursue rapid oil and gas methane abatement.

By Andrew Baxter “Very soon nobody is going to be able to hide from methane leakage,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said back in 2019 . Now, the convergence of new satellites, new climate commitments and new market demands means that day is here. Some companies have been girding for it; others are lagging. Either way,

The oil and gas industry must engage with national oil companies and non-operated joint ventures to achieve methane goals.

Eleven of the nation’s leading health, environmental and community groups have filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s protective limits on methane pollution from new and existing oil and gas sources against court challenges.

Statement of Rosalie Winn, EDF Director and Lead Counsel for Methane and Clean Air Policy

First satellite developed by an environmental non-profit will see methane emissions others can’t, paving the way for heightened accountability and faster reductions

Just after 4:00pm Pacific Time today MethaneSAT effectively detached from SpaceX Transporter-10 that carried the emissions monitor into space.

For the finance sector, MethaneSAT satellite data will enable a step change in oil & gas risk and performance evaluation.

MethaneSAT will partner with Google to map leaks from the oil and gas industry and beyond, Nature reports.

The New York Times reports on MethaneSAT, the game-changing satellite developed by EDF, with partners. “There will soon be a new eye in the sky that’s designed to detect emissions of methane, an invisible yet potent gas that is dangerously heating the world,” the newspaper reports.

By Andrew Baxter Methane is now a central part of the oil & gas industry’s climate challenge. New regulations in the U.S and Europe, growing concern in Asia and mounting interest from investors and global gas markets mean increasing pressure to improve emissions performance. It was also a focal point in the COP28 climate talks,

By Elizabeth Lieberknecht Texas’ primary oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, took the unfortunate — though not surprising — step last month of requesting legal action against EPA’s recently finalized commonsense methane rules. This is unfortunate because, once implemented, these rules will protect public health, limit climate change and energy waste. It is not …

A nonprofit set out to build a satellite that would help slow down global warming. Here’s what they made. 

By Charlotte Hanson Cutting methane emissions from the energy sector is the fastest, cheapest and most effective way to curb global warming even as we decarbonize our energy systems. And the first step is making sure we know how much methane is being emitted, where it’s being released and by whom. As the well-worn adage …

The peaceful retirement that Don and Jane Schreiber envisioned on their ranch in northern New Mexico has been disrupted by natural gas drilling on their land. They're now committed advocates for reducing methane emissions from oil and gas.

By Grace Smith This past Friday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) announced in a Notice of Intent (NOI) that $1 billion in funding from Congress’s Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP) will soon become available.  Passed as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, MERP aims to significantly reduce methane and …