NPR

The U.S. has millions of old gas and oil wells. Here's what it takes to plug them up

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 ...
koaa

As parts of U.S. experience drought, old wells are spewing water no one is plugging

IMPERIAL, Texas – Water has never been more valuable. Parts of the west are dealing with record droughts. The Great Salt Lake is reaching record low levels. But in parts of Texas, an area struggling ...
Odessa American

Texas regulators grapple with a growing problem: old oil wells leaking polluted water

Hawk Dunlap stands at the site of Lake Boehmer, a brine lake that has leaked out of an old well in Pecos County. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality received $10 million from lawmakers in ...
The Texas Tribune

Texas regulators grapple with a growing problem: old oil wells leaking polluted water

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