> California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.

"Scientists say climate negotiators have misjudged the effects of rising methane emissions and warn the potent greenhouse gas could imperil hopes of meeting mid-century climate targets. The key, they say, is to focus on cutting those _...Read More_

"The Environmental Protection Agency is drastically undervaluing the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas when the agency compares methane’s climate impact to that of carbon dioxide, a new study concludes.  The EPA’s climate accounting _...Read More_

>"CO2 may be better-known, but methane will make or break a "decisive decade" for climate change."

"Countries, companies and organisations around the world are promising to limit their carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, but how good are their commitments?"

That is important, and frightening, but hardly shocking. The aim of letting the world warm no more than 1.5°C, agreed on in Paris six years ago, is one to which many countries, notably the small-island states for which sea-level rise is an _...Read More_

>"Slashing carbon dioxide emissions is critical to ending the climate crisis. But, for the first time, scientists emphasized the need to control a more insidious culprit: methane."

The landmark assessment was dire. But it shows that by slashing methane emissions, humanity can make rapid progress in fighting climate change.

>"The action needed to limit these risks is clear, if not necessarily easy."

>"New Mexico calls for the oil and gas industry to capture 98 percent of its methane by 2026."

[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/climate/methane-leaks-united-nations.amp.html%3f0p19G=0232](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/climate/methane-leaks-united-nations.amp.html%3f0p19G=0232) >"A major United Nations report will declare that slashing emissions of methane, the main component of natural gas, is far _...Read More_

>"A growing body of scientific evidence suggests our dietary habits are putting way too much pressure on the environment"

>"The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are _...Read More_

"Methane Is Short-Lived in the Atmosphere but Leaves Long-Term Damage" Unlike carbon dioxide, which is relatively stable and by definition has a GWP value of one, methane is a live-fast, die-young greenhouse gas. _...Read More_