plugging abandoned oil and gas wells. More than 100 years of drilling have left 3 million abandoned oil and gas wells across the United States, and more than 2 million of them are “unplugged ...

Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and build ...

A bipartisan effort is underway to address thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells across Pennsylvania and the nation. U.S.

A pair of abandoned oil wells that were leaking into a lake at an Ottawa County park have been cleaned out and capped off.

Volatile oil ... and gas wells en masse, particularly in the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface. But the real danger lies underground — where oil ...

The state could receive around $212 million to plug abandoned wells. But Trump's funding freeze could threaten nearly $90 million.

The Department of Environmental Protection rebuked the conventional oil and gas drilling ... to the report released on Dec. 29. “Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental ...

But this cherished practice is under threat from a toxic legacy: abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells. The San Juan Basin, particularly within the Navajo Eastern Agency, has endured over a ...

12/31/2024 UPDATE: Work is underway to plug an abandoned oil well ... around a hole dug on South Louisville Avenue. The trench was left open because an old oil well is leaking natural gas.

OAKLAND, Calif.— California climate, health and community groups sent a letter to the U.S. Interior Department today urging it to force polluters to pay for the cleanup of tens of thousands of ...