Ohio oil and gas companies wasted $93 million worth of natural gas in 2019, enough to meet the yearly energy demands of the state's most populous cities, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund. Sarah Spence, executive director of the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum, said tighter state regulations and regular inspections would prevent methane -- the main component of natural gas and a major contributor to global warming -- from being leaked, vented or flared from wells, or from pipes during the transportation process. "It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense," Spence pointed out. " ...