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    Climate

    Trump Eliminates Major Methane Rule, Even as Leaks Are Worsening

    The weakening of Obama-era efforts to fight climate change amounts to a gift to many oil companies. Researchers warn that the decision ignores science.

    By Coral Davenport

    PRINT EDITIONE.P.A. Weakens a Rule Regulating Methane, Even as Leaks Are Worsening|August 14, 2020, Page A24
    The rollback marks the last major Obama-era climate-change regulation to be weakened by the administration.
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    Climate

    Curbs on Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, to Be Relaxed in U.S.

    If the proposal is adopted, the government would no longer require oil and gas companies to inspect for and repair methane leaks from wells and pipelines.

    By Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport

    PRINT EDITIONE.P.A. to Weaken Controls on Gas Tied to Warming|August 30, 2019, Page A1
    Leaks from natural gas drilling, shipping and storage are one of the main sources of methane emissions in the United States.
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    Climate

    E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

    The reversal is the latest move in the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to weaken environmental rules, but it could be quickly undone after the November election.

    By Coral Davenport

    PRINT EDITIONAugust 11, 2020
    A gas flare in Loving County, Texas. By some estimates, methane has 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide, though it dissipates faster.
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    Climate

    It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible.

    Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.

    By Hiroko Tabuchi and Jonah M. Kessel

    PRINT EDITIONAn Invisible Menace to the Climate, Revealed in Infrared|December 13, 2019, Page A20

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    Climate

    Here Are America’s Top Methane Emitters. Some Will Surprise You.

    Oil and gas giants are selling off their most-polluting operations to small private companies. Most manage to escape public scrutiny.

    By Hiroko Tabuchi

    PRINT EDITIONObscure Names On a Top 10 List Of Big Polluters|June 3, 2021, Page A1
    A pump jack near Bakersfield, Calif. Some small oil and gas companies have much higher methane emissions than the biggest companies, despite producing just a fraction of the output.
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    Climate

    Who’s Driving Climate Change? New Data Catalogs 72,000 Polluters and Counting

    A nonprofit backed by Al Gore and other big environmental donors says it can track emissions down to individual power plants, oil fields and cargo ships.

    By Raymond Zhong

    PRINT EDITIONClimate Nonprofit Says It Can Track Emissions Down to the Polluter|November 9, 2022, Page A10
    Climate TRACE estimates that the Shagang Group steel plant in Zhangjiagang, China, emits more greenhouse gases than any other steel plant on Earth.
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    Europe

    Mysterious Blasts and Gas Leaks: What We Know About the Pipeline Breaks in Europe

    The leaks, which may amount to as much as a third of Denmark’s annual carbon emissions, expose the vulnerability of critical infrastructure as the war in Ukraine continues.

    By Stanley Reed

    PRINT EDITIONDamaged Pipelines, and Questions About an Escalation of War|September 29, 2022, Page A9
    The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline being laid in the Baltic Sea in 2018.
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    Climate

    Oil Giants, Under Fire From Climate Activists and Investors, Mount a Defense

    Thirteen energy companies gathered in New York City to pledge action on climate change, though many of their ideas would perpetuate the use of oil and gas.

    By Hiroko Tabuchi

    PRINT EDITIONOil Giants, on Defense, Offer Few Climate Fixes|September 24, 2019, Page A13
    Eldar Saetre, C.E.O. of Equinor, a Norwegian oil company, aboard the Donna M. on a tour of his company’s wind farm project off New York City on Sunday.
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    Climate

    Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air

    In a victory for energy companies, the administration plans to roll back rules covering methane leaks and the “flaring,” or burning, of the potent greenhouse gas.

    By Coral Davenport

    PRINT EDITIONWhite House Set To Weaken Rules Curbing Methane|September 11, 2018, Page A1
    A flaring pit near a well in the Bakken oil field, which straddles the United States and Canada.
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    Science

    Natural Gas: Abundance of Supply and Debate

    Depending on one’s point of view, natural gas is either an essential tool to meet the challenge of climate change, or another dirty fossil fuel.

    By John Schwartz

    PRINT EDITIONDecember 23, 2014, Page D1
    Korby Bracken giving a tour of an Anadarko oil production facility. The company uses infrared cameras to detect leaks and then plug them quickly.
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