{"id":557725,"date":"2026-03-24T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:25:12","slug":"iran-wars-climate-toll-methane-plumes-rise-from-oil-and-gas-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557725\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War\u2019s Climate Toll: Methane Plumes Rise From Oil and Gas Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Iran\u2019s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and strikes on oil facilities have had an array of impacts on fossil fuel producers. One of them? Excess natural gas with nowhere to go, leading facilities to burn it off and spew plumes of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Today\u2019s newsletter has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-23\/iran-war-missile-attack-on-ras-laffan-spurs-increased-flaring-satellites-show\" title=\"Middle East War Spurs Emissions From Oil and Gas Sites, Satellites Show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">exclusive satellite data analysis<\/a> showing how much greenhouse gas pollution is coming from impacted Middle East oil and gas infrastructure. It\u2019s also the start of CERAWeek, a major annual energy confab. We\u2019ve got your rundown so far, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-23\/totalenergies-released-from-1-billion-us-offshore-wind-lease\" title=\"Total Released From $1 Billion US Offshore Wind Leases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">big US offshore wind news<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and strikes on oil facilities have had an array of impacts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45,49,48,7214,295,112025,81021,85614,5460,17021,2546,5897,1259,17267,66,8767],"class_list":["post-557725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-generic-1st-ng-future","tag-green","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-infrastructure","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-qatar","tag-science","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}