We found abandoned oil and gas wells were leaking methane into groundwater," study author Samuel Shaheen told Newsweek.

The number of abandoned oil and gas wells in North Dakota has grown 10% over the past two years to more than 700 amid low oil prices, and state regulators are considering new rules to try to keep the ...

Forrest Smith was forced to step down last month as the National Park Service’s chief petroleum engineer. He wasn’t replaced.

State regulators are pushing to plug three oil wells in southern Arkansas that were owned and run by a company that can no longer be located. The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission wants to plug the ...

Marine Life Still Feeling the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Years Later ...

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...

A lead congressional committee investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has broadened its inquiry, now checking if tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells are leaking or even being ...

It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the ...