January 2021, Vol. 248, No. 1
Features
Policy Implications for Satellite-Based Methane Detection
By Jonathan Elkind, Erin Blanton, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Robert Kleinberg and Anton Leemhuis, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA (Editor’s note: This article is the first of a two-part series) In August 2020, the Trump administration finalized plans to roll back regulations on oil and gas industry emissions of methane from new and modified infrastructure. In the same month, the European Commission gathered stakeholder comments as part of its process to introduce the first EU-wide methane regulations. Although contradictory in direction, these regulatory processes on opposite sides of the Atlantic highlighted a critical climate protection challenge: How c

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