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The agency under-counted abandoned wells by more than half, which means the effort covers only a fraction of the cost.

The Interior Department has signed an agreement with several other federal agencies to organize its nationwide effort to clean up orphaned oil and gas

Stacy Martin, Managing Editor

CRANE — Rusted pipes litter the sandy fields of Ashley Williams Watt’s cattle ranch in windswept West Texas. The corroded skeletons are all that remain of...

Forgotten Oil and Gas Wells Lingering, Leaking Toxic Chemicals By Cathy Bussewitz and Martha Irvine | August 3, 2021 Rusted pipes litter the sandy fields of Ashley Williams Watt’s cattle ranch in windswept West Texas. The corroded skeletons are all that remain of hundreds of abandoned oil wells that were drilled long before her family owned the land. The wells, unable to produce any useful amounts of oil or gas, were plugged with cement decades ago and forg...

CRANE, Texas (AP) — Rusted pipes litter the sandy fields of Ashley Williams Watt’s cattle ranch in windswept West Texas. The corroded skeletons are all that remain of hundreds of abandoned oil wells that were drilled long before her family owned the land. The wells, unable to produce any useful amounts of oil or gas, were plugged with cement decades ago and forgotten. But something eerie is going on beneath the land, where Watt once played among the mesquite trees, jackrabbits and jav...

<figcaption> Brackish water flows from an unplugged abandoned well outside of Imperial in Pecos County. Texas reported more than 6,000 documented "orphan" oil wells in 2019, almost all on private land, but some experts believe that's an underestimate. <cite>Credit: Rafael Aguilera for The Texas Tribune</cite> </figcaption>

Some areas of Texas could benefit from Biden’s federal directive to accelerate cleanups of legacy oil and gas, mining and hazardous waste contamination.