methane gas News

Chubb Launches Client Methane Resource Center

Chubb Limited recently announced the launch of the Chubb Methane Resource Hub, a digital resource offering clients information and insights for measuring and mitigating methane emissions. The initiative draws on technical expertise and guidance from Environmental Defense Fund. The hub …

Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change

To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout the oil-rich Permian Basin. What’s not visible through the chain-link …

New Research Reveals U.S. Gas Pipeline Leaks Have Not Improved

Over 2,600 hazardous gas pipeline leaks in the United States caused more than $4 billion in damages and emergency services, killed 122 people, and released 26.6 billion cubic feet of fuel as methane or carbon dioxide, according to a report …

$120M Settlement Reached Over 2015 Southern California Methane Gas Leak

A Southern California utility reached a nearly $120 million settlement over a massive blowout at a natural gas storage field that became the nation’s largest known release of climate-changing methane and forced thousands to flee their Los Angeles homes almost …

Father, Son Workers Killed at Mississippi Sewer Lift Station

Authorities believe a father and son who died while working on a sewer lift station in Mississippi were overcome by odorless methane gas. News outlets report that 45-year-old Terry West and his 20-year-old son Gage West were among three men …

Gas in Assumption Aquifer Thought to Be from Sinkhole

A state seismic expert has found two likely existing “deep” sources continuing to feed methane gas under the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities in the area of northern Assumption Parish in Louisiana. But officials working on the removal of …