The methane row didn’t end, it moved

Tuesday, 04 August 2026 08:58

Two developments suggest an ongoing US–EU methane row is deflating: a leaked Commission recommendation would suspend penalties to the end of the decade, and a fresh Rystad study says compliant supply is abundant. Yet Washington stays loud and US producers are holding back from European term deals. The contradiction is not in the policy. It is in where each claim bites, writes our Markets Editor, Dr Alexander Wilk. 


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