Permian Basin
The Permian Basin also known as the most prolific oil and gas field is located in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico; has been critical to the ongoing oil, gas, and petrochemical boom in the U.S. It is also considered a great example of environmental racism and injustice and is expected to become the world's largest source of climate pollution by 2030. The area's production of oil and gas has already quadrupled in the past decade and is projected to produce by the year 2050 nearly 40 billion metric tons of C02.
According to the Permian climate bomb; 80 percent of the emissions which account for over 30.6 billion tons of CO2, would come from burning the liquids and gas produced from new wells that were not in production at the end of 2020.