WELL, MIKE SHANNON, A CONTRACTOR, IS AT WORK PLUGGING IN ABANDONED GAS. WELL, THERE’S ACTUALLY BENEATH THE DRIVEWAY OF THIS HOME IN EMSWORTH FOR DECADES, IT WAS COVERED BY NOTHING MORE THAN A FRYING ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For years, the smell of gas wafting through the grounds of the Franciscan Village senior housing facility in Cleveland was a joke among its residents, although they did not realize ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...

Western Pennsylvania was recently the site of a significant achievement, the plugging of the 200th abandoned or orphaned gas well in the state over the last 14 months. That's more wells than the state ...

MIDLAND, Texas — In the oil and gas industry, there is a focus on plugging wells that have likely reached the end of their production period. Texas has its own fund that helps plug abandoned wells, ...

BOYNE FALLS, MI – The pungent odor of brine wafted across an old well site in eastern Charlevoix County as workers pumped hundreds of gallons of concrete deep underground. An oil field crew used heavy ...

PLEASANT VALLEY, W.Va. (WBOY) — With the prevalence of wells created by West Virginia’s oil and gas industry, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is gathering public input on what ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Well Done Foundation, a non-profit focused on plugging orphaned oil and gas wells, announced on Thursday that Santa Barbara County awarded the group its first ...

Despite the Shapiro administration’s increased efforts to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells, conventional drillers continue to abandon their wells at a rate faster than the Pennsylvania ...

RELATIONSHIP WITH A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT. MEANWHILE, GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO IS ANNOUNCING ANOTHER $44 MILLION THAT WILL GO TOWARD PLUGGING LONG ABANDONED OIL AND GAS WELLS. THIS IS GOING TO REDUCE ...

NEW MEXICO (AP) — New Mexico land managers say more than 130 abandoned oil and natural gas wells have been plugged on state trust lands as part of an enforcement program that began two years ago. Land ...

Plugging thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells in New Mexico could generate billions in wages and more than 65,000 jobs while generating state revenue, per a recent study. A report published ...