All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some estimate over a million such "orphan wells" still ...

The Environmental Defense Fund estimates there are somewhere between 300,000 and 700,000 undocumented, abandoned oil and gas ...

The number of total oil and gas drilling rigs in the US fell by 2 to 537, the lowest total since October 2021 and posting its 11th consecutive weekly decline, Baker Hughes reported.

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for an 11th week in a row for the first time ...

The Department of Interior (DOI) is proposing to reopen up to 82%of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska ...

In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, one innovator is applying this transformative force not jus ...

The government has identified several areas in the northeast region enriched with critical and strategic minerals which are ...

Scientists recently released research showing where groundwater is most at risk of contamination by orphan wells.

For the first time in three decades, the federal government has released a study tallying up the amount of oil and gas under ...

The Appalachian Basin – which includes parts of eastern Ohio – is one of the areas where aquifers are most at risk.

The USGS recently released a report on undiscovered oil and gas resources in formations under federally managed public lands. It estimated that nationally there are technically recoverable ...