Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds. They’re among the nearly 4,500 ...

Legislation that would help speed up the process of plugging abandoned oil and gas wells has passed the state Senate with ...

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 ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up — we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

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 ...

When it comes to environmental responsibility, New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is not just stepping up—we’re leading the way. In recent years, oil and gas operators plugged over 90% of the wells ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is overseeing a large oil and gas well-plugging project near Chapman ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

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, ...