Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos released thousands of tons of methane gas into the atmosphere from an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico last December, research published on Thursday by the European Space Agency (ESA) showed. Invisible and odorless, but much more harmful to the environment than carbon dioxide, methane is considered a major driver of global warming. Two satellites recorded images of methane plumes during one “ultraemission” event between Dec. 8 and Dec. 27, the report found. Researchers led by Itziar Irakulis Loitxate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia calculated about 4,000 tons of methane […]