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Despite the Shapiro administration’s increased efforts to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells, conventional drillers continue to abandon their wells at a rate faster than the Pennsylvania ...

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

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

WEST SUNBURY — The well-plugging crew from a White Township-based company joined Gov. Josh Shapiro and others in Butler County Tuesday, to plug the 200th orphaned or abandoned well under the Shapiro ...

An abandoned oil well in Cornplanter State Forest. Federal money helped Pennsylvania plug 139 abandoned oil and gas wells last year. That’s more than in the eight years before that. Despite the state ...

A key area where it is hoped major cost savings can be made regarding industry decommissioning work in the North Sea concerns well plugging and abandonment, which it is estimated will account for ...

U.S. Rep. Summer Lee’s first major bill, which could accelerate efforts to plug up to 3 million abandoned gas and oil wells across the country, cleared the House Tuesday with strong bipartisan support ...

Western Pennsylvania was recently the site of a significant achievement, the plugging of the 200th abandoned or orphaned gas well in the state over the last 14 months. That's more wells than the state ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) State Plugging Program, a program to save abandoned oil and gas wells across the state from environmental disaster, is waiting for $33.6 million ...

The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission voted unanimously to declare two commercial disposal wells -- one in Crawford County, the other in Franklin County -- abandoned after Department of Energy and ...