'''Coalbed Methane''' is [[methane]] that is extracted from coalbeds.
'''Coalbed Methane''' is [[methane]] that is extracted from coalbeds.
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In many cases, landowners sold the right to extract coal to one entity and sold the right to extract oil and gas to a different entity. Laws in various states take opposite views on whether coalbed methane belongs to the entity that holds the coal rights to a property or to the entity that holds the oil and gas rights.