Benden Circle News Today

Efforts to plug abandoned gas and oil wells — a persistent issue in Western Pennsylvania, where they leak copious amounts of methane — could see increased attention thanks to a bill that passed in the U.S. House on Monday. The Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act seeks to improve

When Pamela Schrank’s family moved into their Murrysville home last May, she was told an old gas well at the edge of some woods on their property had been capped. That wasn’t the case, according to state environmental officials — a fact Schrank found out last fall when she was