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The commonwealth’s annual budget shortchanged the DEP for years. Concerned citizens should tell Gov. Wolf and their state representatives and senators that the DEP needs more funding.
Infrastructure money could aid push to plug oil, gas wells LAURA LEGERE and ANYA LITVAK, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail PITTSBURGH (AP) — By some accounts, Pennsylvania has the worst accumulation of old, unplugged, ownerless oil and gas wells in the nation. There are an estimated 200,000 of them, and the cost to plug them could exceed $6 billion. The state’s orphan well plugging program has been underfunded for decades, but it is primed to take advantage of an influx of cash. Part of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion proposal to upgrade the nation’s infr...