Over the past three years, 30 oil and gas infrastructure facilities in the Permian have been large methane emitters, data collected from airborne surveys by Carbon Mapper and the Environmental Defense Fund showed. The data collected from surveys conducted between 2019 and 2021 showed that 30 so-called “super-emitters” produce the same near-term climate pollution as around half a million passenger vehicles, the Environmental Defense Fund said. Those “super-emitters” account for less than .001% of the region’s…
