BELOW: The methane pumping station is shown at the Elk Creek Mine in Somerset. The Denver company that oversaw installation of the generator that uses the methane also is producing electricity by way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is the second-most common global-warming pollutant after carbon dioxide. It doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long – only ...

Scot Miller is an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering whose research focuses on greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. His ...

Current methanol production from methane requires extreme heat and pressure, making it energy-intensive and a major source of carbon dioxide emissions. Researchers used low-temperature plasma ...

An international team led by Penn State's Institute of Energy and the Environment Director Bruce Logan has developed a new ...

A group of 42 leading climate scientists has warned that new approaches to measuring methane emissions could weaken global climate action. Researchers say these methods may allow countries to dilute ...

Inside the zero-gap reactor that converts CO2 and renewable electricity into methane.Bruce Logan/Penn Researchers at ...

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Odorless and colorless, methane is a gas that is easy to miss—but it’s one of the most important contributors to ...

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is being released from landfills and oil and gas operations around the world in far larger amounts than governments realized, recent airborne and satellite surveys ...