this month used new technologies, including a fleet of methane-detecting satellites, to estimate that as much as 12% of global methane emissions is caused by a relatively small number of ultra-emitting events, usually when fossil fuel operators release natural gas. A sizable portion of those emissions comes from Texas. We should stop that.
We wanted to learn what we could about ultra-emission events in Texas. One such event in the Permian Basin lasted two months, from mid-July to mid-September 2020, according to the study. Researchers identified a gas plume that, they say, dumped between 7,146 and 16,537 tons of methane into the atmosphere. The latitude and longitude of that plume matches a location south of Midland operated by Targa Resources.
We also reached out to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality since that agency regulates air quality issues. TCEQ media and community relations manager Laura Lopez responded right away, but said the agency has received no report of a two-month-long emissions event. She cited another event at the same location, reported to TCEQ on Sept. 24, 2020, which lasted 32 hours and was caused by a pressure sensitivity valve.
Though methane is a regulated greenhouse gas, Lopez noted that it is not categorized as a volatile organic compound, and TCEQ “has limited enforcement authority over methane emissions.”
NOBODY!!!!!!!! It is morally shameful that Texas is still allowing the Permium Basin to be the largest US producer of polluting METHANE gas. VoteBlue2022
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