A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...
SUMMER IN ROSS TOWNSHIP. THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED OIL AND GAS WELLS ACROSS THE STATE OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THOSE ARE ...
40 of 76 “zombie wells” tested in 5 states were leaking. Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her ...
The environmental harm of oil and gas wells doesn’t end when the pumping stops. If disused wells remain unplugged — the term of art for closing them up with concrete and remediating the environment ...
LULING Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, where an old oil museum still nods to the boom days, the ground groans as oil workers pull steel tubing — each piece is longer ...
A bill that aims to address growing numbers of uncapped oil and gas wells is expected to become law after clearing the Texas Legislature on Monday. Senate Bill 1150, authored by state Sen. Mayes ...
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