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Pennsylvania can’t wait on Congress to solve its problem of abandoned oil and gas wells | Opinion Updated 9:32 AM; By Joseph Minott and Mike Krancer A serious and growing problem has been leaking to the surface for decades, emitting potentially millions of tons of greenhouse gasses nationwide every year and polluting Pennsylvania’s air, soil, and water with other contaminants. Yet very little has been done to stop it or even understand how. Across the state, hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells leaking methane, oil, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) dot the landscape....

Short term rentals, like Airbnb, are on the Vermont Legislatures radar this year as two bills address some of the concerns with the properties.

STOWE, Vt. – Bob Poole noticed the traffic first. Poole and his wife bought a house on Stowe's Bull Moose Ridge Road in 2014 because of the solitude. Poole, a former executive editor of National Geographic magazine, spent four decades working in the Washington, D.C., area. Vermont was his Nirvana. "My wife and I both loved it here," Poole said. "We started looking around. We found this place and made plans to sell everything in Virginia and move here. The big attraction was the quiet." One example: Every spring the woodcocks would put on a dramatic show of mating rituals just across the nar...