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One of the drawbacks to birthing the modern oil industry is that Pennsylvania’s woods are pocked by thousands of decrepit and polluting wells. Out of these wells, oil and brine can burble up onto land and into surface waters. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, vents into the atmosphere. Closing these scars in the landscape has obvious benefits, but it’s not cheap. Plugging just one old oil well costs $10,000, said David Hill, a board member of the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association. Hill spoke in Monday’s meeting of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. The wells in question far predate Pennsylvania’s natural gas drilling renaissance of the past decade.

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