Our investigation found that many operators are paying to keep oil wells idle, avoiding the costly process of sealing them. Central California is home to thousands of oil and gas wells. Some have ...

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 ...

State regulators voted to delay a plan to drill 32 new oil and gas wells near the Aurora Reservoir on Wednesday, after nearly ...

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Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

GOVERNOR, MARKED OFF NUMBER 300. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED OR ORPHANED GAS WELLS ACROSS THE STATE. SOME ARE MAPPED OUT, BUT OTHERS LOCATIONS ARE STILL UNKNOWN. THIS ONE, NOW MARKING ...

The lawsuit alleges that the companies "unjustly enriched themselves by investing their money elsewhere" without properly ...

Kentucky made history by plugging a well in Elliot County. This is the first well capped in the nation through the Methane ...

WELL, MIKE SHANNON, A CONTRACTOR, IS AT WORK PLUGGING IN ABANDONED GAS. WELL, THERE’S ACTUALLY BENEATH THE DRIVEWAY OF THIS HOME IN EMSWORTH FOR DECADES, IT WAS COVERED BY NOTHING MORE THAN A FRYING ...

After several months of trying to get the state of Colorado’s attention about a leaking natural gas well on his property near ...

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