We estimate there are thousands of abandoned wells in Washington. If you find an abandoned well on your property, you are required to work with a licensed well driller to properly close it up, a ...

Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that will cost at least $335 million. New statistical models developed by Grist and the Texas ...

But as oil and gas jobs have shriveled up amid the COVID-19 recession, a green jobs proposal has become incredibly popular among Republicans and Democrats: plugging abandoned oil and gas wells.

For Navajo families like mine in Northwest New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, piñon picking is more than a seasonal tradition. The small, nutrient-rich nuts are a cultural delicacy, used in ...

Over 100 years of drilling for oil in the United States has left its mark, as millions of abandoned oil wells scattered across the country have created one of the biggest onshore environmental hazards ...

Abandoned oil wells pose a significant environment and ... such as archaeology or urban planning. The next step now is to assess how much methane is leaking. High-tech methane sensors are ...

Several sites in Colorado would fit well with the pilot program, said Jason Willis, director of Trout Unlimited’s Western Abandoned Mine ... is a phenomenal first step to solving a pervasive ...

Operatives of the Nigerian Navy have uncovered an abandoned oil well used by suspects for criminal activities in Oke-Agor-Isekun, an island community in Ogun State which is also close to Ondo State.

Cal Poly’s environmental engineering team is broadening its groundbreaking research on greenhouse gas emissions from California’s idle and abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to a nearly $1 million ...