Oil producers in the Permian Basin must do more to disclose and stop the leak of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, a House committee wrote in a letter to 10 major oil companies. The letter from the House Science Committee was sent to some of the largest fossil fuel producers in the Permian Basin, a major source of oil and natural gas that includes vast portions of Texas and New Mexico. Among them were Exxon Mobil Corp. , Occidental Petroleum Corp. , ConocoPhillips , Chevron Corp. , and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. In the letter, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat who chairs the the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, said she was concerned that leak detection and repair programs at the companies weren’t sufficient and demanded the companies disclose more information about their leaks and how they found them. The committee said it is investigating […]