The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is taking a major step in addressing the issue of abandoned oil and gas wells ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Ondo State government has said the Oke-Agor-Isekun, an island where an abandoned oil well was discovered ... two distinct states in the South West, with well-defined boundaries.

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 ...