As with many byproducts of industry, methane is often thrown away. Which means the oil and gas industry just dumps it into our atmosphere.

The Texas Oil and Gas Story: Profits Over People and the Planet - Oilfield Witness

There were many alarming facts in the recent study “High rates of hydrogen sulfide emissions measured from marginal oil wells near Austin and San Antonio, Texas,” published in Environmental Research C...

Look at that bit of truth in this article on the new methane pipeline out of the Permian. "The Permian is the most prolific U.S. oil patch and natural gas output is a plentiful — and growing — byproduct of fracking there. " They call methane a "byproduct of fracking."

Permian Gas Starts Flowing Via Matterhorn Pipeline in Texas | Transport Topics

Matterhorn Express Pipeline has begun transporting natural gas into Williams Cos.’s Transco pipeline, a long-awaited addition to midstream infrastructure serving the Permian Basin.

The LNG industry wants to make up its own rules about emissions from exported LNG. @profbobhowarth.bsky.social's research shows that exported LNG is dirtier than coal. That is why they want to make their own rules.

Biggest LNG Exporter in the US Wants to Define Emission Rules

Cheniere Energy Inc.'s top executive Jack Fusco wants the biggest gas exporter in the US to set the rules to measure the environmental impact of liquefied

"As the oil industry is motivated by profit, with no financial incentive to capture methane, such a solution is unlikely to happen."

We Can Solve Climate’s Methane Crisis—And Without New Satellites or Regulations

New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction

@justinmikulka.bsky.social@txsharon.bsky.social wrote about in their Scientific American op-ed. Oil companies vent methane because it saves them money.

The Texas Oil and Gas Story: Profits Over People and the Planet - Oilfield Witness

There were many alarming facts in the recent study “High rates of hydrogen sulfide emissions measured from marginal oil wells near Austin and San Antonio, Texas,” published in Environmental Research C...

Even Oilprice.com is reporting the out of control methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry. "Oil and natural gas facilities are now the country’s largest industrial source of methane."

Oil and Gas Boom Fuels U.S. Methane Surge | OilPrice.com

Despite federal efforts to reduce methane emissions, the U.S. continues to struggle with a growing methane problem, fueled by a surge in oil and gas production.

@txsharon.bsky.social and Miguel on the hunt for methane.

We are facing a global #methanewww.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

Another problem with methane emissions is ozone creation. Ozone is really bad for human health and for crops. Climate change is going to be very hard on farmers. More ground-level ozone will make it harder.

Report: Cutting methane emissions key to fighting climate change and harmful ozone

Many human activities lead to methane being released into the atmosphere. Agriculture, landfills, wastewater, and fossil fuel production and distribution are the biggest contributors. These make up ro...

What they do instead is say they are already clean, despite the evidence.