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As many as 120,000 jobs could be created by stopping abandoned oil and gas wells leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere

A federal program to plug a half-million wells could create as many as 120,000 specialized oil and gas industry jobs https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/green-stimulus-oil-and-gas-workers-considering-major-federal-effort-plug-orphaned-and-abandoned, according to 2020 research from Columbia University and Resources for the Future, a think-tank. The Well Done Foundation has already been doing this work for a few years, pioneering a funding approach that uses carbon credits linked to curbing the wells’ methane emissions.

DesignBuildUTAH, a program at the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning, allows graduate students to immerse themselves in hands-on opportunities to design and build full-scale works of architecture in collaboration with residents of the Native American communities of San Juan County.

By Logan Stefanich

Six University of Utah students recently completed an 864-square-foot home on the Navajo Nation that includes a greenhouse, a wood-burning stove and an outdoor fire pit.