Uinta Basin has been combatting methane emissions for years

Stephen Foulger, an environmental scientist with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, ties a pink ribbon around a pipe fitting that has a small gas leak that he found using a Flir gas detection camera during an inspection of an oil pump site near Roosevelt on Dec. 1, 2021. A specially equipped jet aircraft measured 70% of the nation’s sites of onshore oil and gas production to detect the level of methane emissions — a supercharged pollutant with harmful health implications and a costly waste for industry. The Environmental Defense...