Oil and gas facilities across Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma vent methane every day. It traps 80 times more heat than CO2 over its first two decades, and almost none of it gets traced back to a specific well. Regulators need attribution before they can act, and the person living next to the leak usually has no idea who's responsible or which rule is even being broken.
Plume Finder fixes that with real satellite detections from Carbon Mapper's Tanager-1 mission. It maps methane plumes across the three states, matches each one to the nearest facility and operator using a trained model, then pulls up the exact regulation that applies. What that turns up is stark: New Mexico requires 98% gas capture. Texas's flaring exceptions let the same kind of plume keep happening with almost no consequence.
Finding the leak is the easy part. Getting anyone to act on it is where most tools like this stop, so Plume Finder doesn't. Residents can add ground-truth reports, co-sign a neighbor's complaint, and generate a letter ready to file, all from the same map. Every signature makes the case harder to wave off.
This already works: a live map, a trained model, and a way for a neighborhood to push back.
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