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Feds Are Downplaying #MethaneLeaks in America’s Biggest #OilField, Satellite Data Suggests

A report found #MethaneEmissions in the #PermianBasin to be nearly four times higher than #EPA estimates. A senator wants an explanation.

By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 20, 2026

"#FossilFuel extraction is a known source of #methane leaks, releasing large amounts of this potent #GreenhouseGas into the atmosphere. Yet the Environmental Protection Agency appears to be drastically underreporting emissions from the nation’s largest oil-producing region.

"Nearly half of U.S. oil comes from the Permian Basin in West #Texas and southeastern #NewMexico. The region generates more than $100 billion annually for the U.S. economy, and apparently, a whole lot of methane, too. A recent report from #MethaneSAT—a methane-sensing satellite that observed Earth from March 2024 to June 2025—found emissions from the Permian Basin to be nearly four times higher than the EPA’s official estimates."

Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/feds-are-downplaying-methane-leaks-in-americas-biggest-oil-field-satellite-data-suggests-2000736269

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Study Identifies #Methane ‘Super-Emitters' in Largest #US #Oilfield

Fixing just the worst leaks in the #PermianBasin oilfield’s infrastructure could cut methane #emissions by 55 tons an hour, according to a study by #NASA, University of Arizona, and #ASU.
About half of the biggest sources of methane in the Basin oilfield are likely to be malfunctioning #oilfield equipment.

Data from this study can be viewed and downloaded at the team’s data portal.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3087/study-identifies-methane-super-emitters-in-largest-us-oilfield/

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