The Methane Matters Coalition consists of five non-profit organizations working across sectors on methane reductions. The main objective is to increase ambition at the European Union (EU) level and within European countries to reduce methane by 2030 while catalyzing EU leadership in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge. The coalition aims to secure emission reduction targets, enforce existing regulatory frameworks, and implement targets focused on capping residual waste generation and reducing bio-waste in mixed waste streams. Reduction of livestock numbers to encourage a dietary shift and implementing mitigation measure on imported fossil fuels is also anticipated.

Partners

• Deutsche Umwelthilfe
• Changing Markets Foundation
• European Environmental Bureau
• Environmental Investigation Agency
• Zero Waste Europe

The Inventory of the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks indicates that natural gas and petroleum systems are the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States. In 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final environmental regulation that is slated to sharply reduce methane emissions and other harmful air pollution from oil and natural gas operations, including from existing sources nationwide. The rule is expected to reduce methane emissions by nearly 80% of what they would have been without the rule. It is also estimated to reduce 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038 and avoid 16 million tons of smog-forming volatile organic compound emissions and 590,000 tons of air toxics.

Partners

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)

Through the capture and utilization of methane, Project Pleiades will generate 80 MW of dispatchable baseload renewable electricity for use in EV charging, achieving a net emissions reduction of over 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year in aggregate across all 50 landfills and generating revenue for participating landfills.

Partners

• Vespene Energy
• Mainspring Energy
• Bridge to Renewables (BTR)

The Inventory of the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks indicates that natural gas and petroleum systems are the largest industrial source of methane emissions in the United States. In 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final environmental regulation that is slated to sharply reduce methane emissions and other harmful air pollution from oil and natural gas operations, including from existing sources nationwide. The U.S. EPA considered nearly 1 million comments received on the two proposals before issuing a final rule, which was announced in December 2023 and subsequently published in March 2024. The rule is expected to reduce methane emissions by nearly 80% of what they would have been without the rule. It is also estimated to reduce 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038 and avoid 16 million tons of smog-forming volatile organic compound emissions and 590,000 tons of air toxics.

Partners

• Global Methane Initiative (GMI)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)