Oil companies must set aside more money to plug wells, a new rule says. But it won't be enough.

Money previously set aside to clean up wells on federal land would have covered the cost of fewer than 1 out of 100, according to the government’s own estimates, and the vast majority of the country’s wells sit inactive or barely producing, meaning they’ll soon need to be plugged. The post Oil companies must set aside more money to plug wells, a new rule says. But it won’t be enough. appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

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