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 ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley this week launched a new grant program aimed at plugging orphaned oil ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells have been a problem in West Virginia for more than a century. Lawmakers did the right thing during the most recent regular session by passing House Bill 3336, which allows ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Work is currently under way to seal an inactive gas well in the 12900 block of Clifton Boulevard. “In that area, we get a lot of complaints for a sulfur natural gas smell,” Lakewood ...

FILE – Oil well workers prepare to plug an orphaned well on the Rooke family ranch, May 18, 2021, near Refugio, Texas. Abandoned or "orphaned" oil and gas wells can present a significant environmental ...

When Youngstown / Warren Regional Chamber President and CEO Guy Coviello was asked if the amount of oil and gas produced in the third quarter of this year by a new horizontal oil and gas well in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado oil and gas regulators will conduct a site-by-site review of 344 oil and gas locations where they say environmental consultants submitted false data ...