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Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells, according to a final
We learn about the need to address some sites in Trinity Bay from Texas Monthly's Russell Gold.
Thanks to a $3 million grant from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Professor Ipsita Gupta is working with a team of LSU researchers to find out which wells are leaking and measure their emissions before and after they are plugged.
There are thousands of orphaned oil and gas wells across the Commonwealth, potentially 5,000 to 7,000 on the Allegheny National Forest alone. It’s going to
This article looks at the challenges of locating and plugging orphaned wells, and how various organizations are striving to mitigate their impact on climate change, groundwater contamination, and more.