Already under fire for its use of 35 methane turbines without permits or pollution controls, the artificial intelligence company is considering adding dozens more generators just 11 miles away. Elon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Flames of burning methane near a well in the Bakken Oil ...

Carbon dioxide isn't the only culprit responsible for global warming. The U.S. is emitting more methane from oil and gas production than previously thought – and it's causing billions of dollars in ...

IOWA (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The U.S.

Scientists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory were flying a plane equipped with a visible-infrared imaging spectrometer over an oil field in California’s San Joaquin Valley when they made a ...

Roughly two-thirds of all atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from methanogens. Tracking down which methanogens in which environment produce methane with a specific isotope signature ...

New aerial monitoring of U.S. oil and gas production found that emissions of methane are more than four times higher than government estimates and eight times higher than the targets the industry has ...

Forty miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the Brandt Company cattle ranch is the largest single point source of methane emissions in the state, releasing ...