Emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane continue to rise, even though methane controls offer “one of the most cost-effective strategies to slow near-term warming,” environmental officials warned at the COP30 climate talks. Further, a failure to better control leaks of methane could become a trade liability for the U.S. oil and gas industry, according to a co-author of the Global Methane Status Report released at the United Nations climate talks. The report produced by the United