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Methane, Exposed

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Two new reports from the UCLA Emmett Institute reveal some of the largest methane sources in 2025.

One of the transformations in the climate policy world over the last few years has been the (rightful and helpful) rise in focus on methane pollution. For a long while, carbon dioxide was the attention-grabbing greenhouse gas, the one at which most policy initiatives were aimed. And CO2 remains critically important, of course. But folks …

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Pointing a Finger at Methane

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UCLA launches the STOP Methane Project with Top 25 in ’25 lists of methane super-polluters.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, I got a call from a Los Angeles city leader asking if I’d be willing to attend a town hall in Porter Ranch, California, to help field questions about the unfolding disaster that was the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak, to provide background on environmental law for the discussion. As …

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