The Trump Administration has announced its intent to weaken the rules requiring oil and gas companies to clean up and plug ...

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Rancher Laura Briggs rises early to care for the livestock scattered across her homestead on the arid plains of West Texas. Briggs and her husband saved up for years to purchase the land and build ...

Oil workers pull tubing from an orphan well in a field in Luling on March 27, 2025. Credit: Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribune LULING — Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, ...

A knee-high pipe sticking out of the ground not far from a school. A gurgle in a pond on rolling farmland. A patch of forest undergrowth hiding a long-forgotten, leaking oil well. Relics like these ...

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 ...

GOVERNOR, MARKED OFF NUMBER 300. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED OR ORPHANED GAS WELLS ACROSS THE STATE. SOME ARE MAPPED OUT, BUT OTHERS LOCATIONS ARE STILL UNKNOWN. THIS ONE, NOW MARKING ...

They need to prove that when they passed that law, it meant something,” Aurora resident Ann Hussain said of Colorado’s 2019 ...

THE EFFORTS TO KEEP PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THEM SAFE. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEP SAYS THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ABANDONED GAS WELLS AND OIL WELLS ACROSS THE STATE, BUT THERE MAY BE 13 TIMES THAT MANY OUT ...

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