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

The state expected millions of dollars to plug wells abandoned by their owners. But the funds are in limbo under a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Oil and gas drilling for more than a century has left behind millions of abandoned wells around the world, many of which are still leaking potent greenhouse gases like methane.

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 ...

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 ...

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.