In 2019, the state lost natural gas primarily through leaking. Proposed federal regulations aim to reduce those emissions.
“ is being wasted,” Mike Surrusco, director of campaigns for Taxpayers for Common Sense, told The Salt Lake Tribune. “Not only is this an energy resource that we should be collecting royalties on that can be used to fund productive things, but we’re just wasting a domestic energy resource by allowing it to be leaked and flared the way it is nationally, in Utah and across the entire American West.”, is the primary component of natural gas.
“A lot of times, controlling leaks doesn’t require building large amounts of infrastructure,” Nini Gu, the Western legislative and regulatory manager for the Environmental Defense Fund’s methane program, told The Tribune. “These are oftentimes component leaks that have very easy fixes.”