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Written by Andrew-Rossi on April 1, 2021 By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines, a longtime priority for Western and rural lawmakers from both parties. President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Hundreds of thousands of “orphaned” oil and gas wells and aband...

President Joe Biden’s plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines.

As senator, Joe Biden was known as “Amtrak Joe.” But as president, his transportation of choice appears to be the electric car.In his first wee

The decision under Trump to cancel a prior effort to ban mining failed to fully consider how the move would affect greater sage grouse, a wide-ranging, chicken-sized bird that has seen a dramatic population drop in recent decades, U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill said.

A federal judge has overturned a Trump administration action that allowed mining and other development on 10 million acres in parts of western states that are...